Essay On Frederick Banting

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Achievements
Due to his bravery in the battle of Cambrai, Frederick Banting was awarded the Military Cross in 1919. Frederick Banting received the Reeve Prize from the University of Toronto in 1922. Frederick Banting’s greatest achievement was the discovery of insulin. Frederick Banting and John James Rickard Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1923. Frederick Banting shared half of his prize money with Charles Best. At the age of 32, Frederick Banting is the first and youngest Canadian to receive the Nobel Prize. In 1934, Frederick Banting was knighted by King George V because of his achievements in medicine.
Historical Significance to Canada
Frederick Banting, with the help of Charles Herbert Best, J.R.R. Macleod and James Bertram Collip, was able to isolate insulin from animals and treat patients suffering from diabetes, using injections of the insulin. The insulin injections succeeded in treating diabetes.
Insulin
Frederick Banting hypothesised that he could obtain the insulin hormone from dogs and then administer the insulin to patients with dia...

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