About
Nobel Prize-winning physician who co-discovered insulin, the hormone that helps keep diabetics alive.
Before Fame
He got extensive surgical experience with the army in WWI.
Trivia
Despite having little training in research, he managed to persuade a Toronto scientist to lend him a lab for eight weeks for his research.
Family Life
He was the youngest of five children born to farmers William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant.
Associated With
Charles Best partnered with Banting in the pioneering research on insulin.
