Dr. Frederick Banting, Toronto, Ontario, ca. 1920-1925, by Arthur S. Goss (1881-1940)

In 1923, Frederick Banting (1891-1941), along with Professor John Macleod, a Scottish physiologist, was the first Canadian to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his efforts leading the University of Toronto team of researchers which discovered insulin. Banting shared his half with Charles Best who worked with him to extract insulin. Macleod divided his share with the Canadian chemist James Bertram Collip, who had helped him purify insulin subsequent to its isolation.

The discovery of insulin has saved the lives of countless thousands of people with diabetes around the world. Banting was also a decorated war hero and a fine amateur artist.

He died in a plane crash while en route to Great Britain on "a mission of high national and scientific importance" as a liaison officer between the British and North American medical services.

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