Sir Frederick Banting 1891-1941

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Photo Source - Canadian Heritage Gallery

Here on the west wall of the Best Building, which is adjacent to the Banting Building to the east, on the north side of College Street just east of University Avenue is an Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque. Here's what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.660281 -79.389460

Soldier, surgeon, and scientist, Banting in 1920 became convinced of the existence of a substance now known as Insulin. A laboratory provided by Dr. J.J.R. Macleod of the University of Toronto enabled Banting and Charles H. Best, in 1921, to prepare an active anti-diabetic extract of pancreas, purifed by Dr. J.B. Collip. This was first used successfully on January 11, 1922, by Drs. W. R. Campbell and A.A. Fletcher. Banting shared with Macleod the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 and was knighted in 1934. Born near Alliston, Ontario, he died in the crash of a military aircraft in Newfoundland, on February 21, 1941.

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