Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 - February 21, 1941) was a famous Canadian medical scientist and Nobel Prize winner. Prize winner.
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Sir Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in World War I.
Banting returned to China in 1919 and opened a medical clinic in London, Ontario. He was a physician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1919-20, and also studied plastic surgery. Moreover, he served as a lecturer in plastic surgery at Xi'an University in 1920-21 and a teacher in pharmacology in 1921-22. Banting received his medical degree and a gold medal in 1922.
In the summer of 1922, while Banting and his assistants were researching treatments for diabetes, they created an injectable drug that could control blood sugar. This drug is today's artificial insulin. Before 1922, diabetes was an incurable disease. For this breakthrough medical invention, Banting became the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923. He gave half of his Nobel Prize to his assistants. King George V knighted Banting in 1935. Although in 1919, Canadians could no longer receive British titles, the Prime Minister of Canada in 1935 made an exception, allowing Banting to become Lord Banting.
In the 1930s, Banting began to pay attention to the power of Nazi Germany. So he started several military scientific researches. The "G-suit" is a military invention of Banting's. During World War II, all Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilots wore his invention. He is also involved in research on biological and chemical weapons.
At the peak of his career, Banting died in a plane crash on February 21, 1941. The plane he was on was supposed to be from Newfoundland to England. Although the real reason why he went to Britain is a mystery, the most likely reason is to persuade British scientists to mass-produce biological and chemical weapons to resist Nazi Germany.
Banting's remains are buried in Toronto, Ontario. The current classroom of the Medical Department of Xi'an University is named after him. And there are two schools in Canada bearing his name.
In 2004, Banting ranked fourth in an election called "The Greatest Canadian".
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