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Frederick Banting

Co-discoverer of insulin · 1891-1941

Frederick Banting
Louis Schmidt · Public domain

Woke at two in the morning with an idea, and sold the patent for a dollar.

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Life story

  1. November 14, 1891 · Alliston, Ontario
    Born on a farm near Alliston, Ontario
  2. 1918 · Cambrai, France
    Wounded at Cambrai as a battalion medical officer and awarded the Military Cross
  3. October 31, 1920 · London, Ontario
    Wrote down the idea at 2 a.m. in his rented room in London, Ontario
  4. Summer 1921 · Toronto
    Worked with Charles Best in a borrowed Toronto lab through the summer
  5. January 23, 1922 · Toronto
    Leonard Thompson, 14, recovered after a purified dose; the patent sold for one dollar
  6. 1923 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine; he split his half with Best
  7. February 21, 1941 · Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland
    Killed in a plane crash in Newfoundland on a wartime mission

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