Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
Canadian physician, physiologist

In 1922, working at the University of Toronto in the laboratory of the Scottish physiologist John Macleod and with the assistance of the Canadian physiologist Charles Best, Banting discovered insulin. In 1923 the Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Banting and Macleod. Objecting to the credit given Macleod, who had not participated in the discovery, Banting shared his half with Best.

Adapted from schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Banting.html