Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the ...

Regarding your editorial “Injecting Some Insulin Reality” (April 6): Although readers may be aware that the discoverer of insulin, the Canadian doctor Frederick Banting, received the Nobel Prize (and ...

Professor Frederick Grant Banting, 38, of the University of Toronto, proceeded from his home in Bedford Road, Toronto, a warmish morning last week, to behold a concrete compliment for his isolating ...

21.6 x 26.7 cm. (8.5 x 10.5 in.) Born in 1891 in Alliston, Ontario, Frederick Banting studied medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his MB degree in 1916 and immediately joined the ...

On January 11, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as a treatment for ...

Charles Herbert Best was born in Maine, the son of a physician. He joined the Canadian artillery during World War I, and thus qualified for Canadian citizenship. Best was still a medical student at ...