1891–1941 Canadian physician who first extracted insulin.
Keywords: insulin; diabetes; macleod; best
Banting, Frederick Grant
Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002356
| Further Reading | |
| Banting FG and Best CH (1922) Internal secretion of pancreas. Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 7: 251–326. | |
| book Bliss M (1987) The Discovery of Insulin. Basingstoke: Macmillan. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.), vol. 4, pp. 440–443. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Harris S (1946) Banting's Miracle: The Story of the Discoverer of Insulin. Philadelphia: Lippincott. | |
| Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society (1942–1944) 4: 21–26. | |
| book Stevenson LG (1946) Sir Frederick Banting. Toronto: Ryerson Press. | |
| book Stevenson LG (1953) Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology, 1901–50, pp. 109–114. New York: Henry Schuman. | |
