Sir Frederick Grant Banting

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Sir Frederick Grant Banting

• By Kirsten

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Why he is Famous

• War Hero
• Discovery of Insulin
• Nobel Winner
• Artwork

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Family

• Born in Alliston, Ont.
• Parents William Thompson Banting and Margaret
  Grant
• Brothers Kenneth, Nelson, Thompson, and sister
  Essie.
• First wife Marion
• Second wife Margaret
• Son William

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Education

• Started major in Divinity
• Transferred to medicine.
• 1916 graduated from U of Toronto

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World War 1

• Canadian Army Medical Corps.
• Served in France
• Wounded in war of Cambria
• Won military cross for heroism under fire

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Discovery of Insulin

• Worked at University of Western Ontario.
• Worked with Charles Best
• Discovered in 1921
• Macleod and Collip found way to refine insulin

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Nobel Prize

• Won in 1923
• Won with Macleod
• Disappointed that Best didnt win
• Shared winnings with Best

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Artwork

• Painted nature as child
• Mom always encouraged him
• Painted lots before he died
• Wanted to paint when retired at 50

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W W 11

• Invented a suit to stop aviators from blacking
  out
• Tested the suit himself
• Died in crash over the Atlantic

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Why He is important as a Canadian

• He has saved millions of lives and although he is
  dead he will continue to save lives.
• He has not only made a contribution to Canada but
  to the world.

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Picture Credits

• Banting and Best Canadian encyclopedia online
• All others from www.diabetes.ca with credit to
  the Banting House National Historic Site
  Collection

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Bibliography

• Websites
• The Nobel Federation, Nobel prize medicine 1923,
  Jan. 5, Accessed Jan. 8 www.nobel.se/medicine/laur
  eates/1923/bantingbio.html
• Canadian Diabetes, Banting House National
  Historic Site Collection, Accessed Jan. 8,
  www.diabetes.ca
• Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Accessed Jan. 8
  http//web.idirect.com/discover/
• William Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting,
  Accessed Jan. 8 www.discoveryofinsulin.com/Banting
  /main.htm
• New Tecumseth Library, Banting Digital Library,
  Accessed Jan. 8 www.newtecumsth.library.on.ca/bant
  ing/main.html

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Bibliography Cont

• Frederick Grant Banting, Accessed Jan.. 8
  www.cdnmedhall.org/Inductees/banting_94.htm
• Frederick Grant Banting, Accessed Jan.. 10
  www.pbs/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm22in.html
• Accessed Jan. 12, http//collection.ic.gc.ca/medic
  al/xbanting.htm
• Frederick Banting Accessed Jan. 8
  www.canadianaconnection.com/cca/banting.htm
• Famous Canadian Scientists,. Accessed Jan. 8
  www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID
  114
• Accessed Jan. 12 http//schwinger.harvard.edu/ter
  ning/bios/Banting.html

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Bibliography Cont

• Books
• Palk, Helen, The Book of Canadian Achievement,
  J.M. Dent and Sons, Canada limt., 1951
• Hacker, Carlotta, Great Canadian Scientists,
  Weigl, Calgary, 1931
• Encyclopedia
• The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985, Banting, Sir
  Frederick Grant
• The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada, 1990, Banting,
  Sir Frederick Grant

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• The End