Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the ...

Millions of people worldwide now suffer from diabetes, but until the 1920s there was no way to treat it. After years of experimenting on how to extract insulin from the pancreas (which is where the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover chemistry, from its small molecules to its big questions. This article is more than 8 years old. Today’s Google Doodle ...

The Canadian doctor who won the Nobel prize for his role in discovering insulin was an accomplished artist as well as a remarkable scientist. Frederick Banting’s 1925 painting of the lab where he did ...

Millions of people around the world suffer from diabetes, but until the 1920s there was no treatment for it. Sir Frederick Banting was a Canadian scientist whose pioneering work using insulin to treat ...

Coinciding with World Diabetes Day, Monday’s Google doodle is an homage to the Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting. Banting pioneered the usage of insulin to treat patients suffering from ...

Google has replaced its logo today with a doodle to honor Sir Frederick Banting on what would have been the Canadian medical-scientist and physician’s 125th birthday. Banting was the first physician ...

Regarding your editorial “Injecting Some Insulin Reality” (April 6): Although readers may be aware that the discoverer of insulin, the Canadian doctor Frederick Banting, received the Nobel Prize (and ...

21.6 x 26.7 cm. (8.5 x 10.5 in.) Born in 1891 in Alliston, Ontario, Frederick Banting studied medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his MB degree in 1916 and immediately joined the ...

12.1 x 15.2 cm. (4.8 x 6 in.) A.Y. Jackson and Frederick Banting spent from mid-July to September of 1927 travelling throughout the Arctic on board the "Beothic", a supply ship that served the eastern ...