Fredrick Banting(1891-1941)
A Canadian Physician born on November 16, 1891. He studied medicine at the University of Toronto where he carried out extensive research in diabetes. He discovered the technique for isolating the hormone insulin which is produced in the pancreas. Insulin when injected, reduces the level of blood sugar and thus relieves the symptoms of diabetes mellitus. This discovery made the treatment of diabetes possible. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology/medicine. He died in an aero plane crash on February 21,1941.
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