Frederick Banting
Frederick Grant Banting is one of Canada's most prominent medical doctors and physicians. He was awarded Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1923 with John James Lee Card McLaud for his discovery of the insulin that is the drug of choice for diabetes. Banting was born in Alisteaton, Ontario, Canada, and studied medicine at the University of Toronto. Graduating from college in 1916, he entered the First World War and was in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. After returning to Canada after the war, he finished his formal studies and worked at a hospital for sick children in Toronto, Canada, world-renowned. Banting then began his personal experiment in London, Ontario. Not satisfied with the years of experimentation, Banting moved to Toronto and on May 17, 1921, he entered the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine. In 1921, Banting began investigating diabetes, under the guidance of his mentor, Charles Best, and his colleague, James Collins, with their advisor, John James Rickard Mack Cloud.