NOBEL PRIZE AWARD FOR INSULIN 1923 -WHICH WAS SHARED AMONG THREE
NOBEL PRIZE AWARD FOR INSULIN 1923 -WHICH WAS SHARED AMONG THREE .Sir Frederick Grant Banting CANADIAN PHYSICIAN WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica See Article History Sir Frederick Grant Banting, (born November 14, 1891, Alliston, Ontario, Canada—died February 21, 1941, Newfoundland), Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, was one of the first to extract (1921) the hormone insulin from the pancreas. Injections of insulin proved to be the first effective treatment for diabetes, a disease in which glucose accumulates in abnormally high quantities in the blood. Banting was awarded a share of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his achievement. then practiced medicine in London, Ontario. In 1889 Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski had found that complete removal of the pancreas in dogs immediately caused severe diabetes. Later scientists hypothesized that the pancreas controlled glucose metabolism by generating a hormone, which they ...