Early Life
He was born in this rural Ontario township, about 80 miles north of Toronto.
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Before starting med school, Banting first enrolled in this program at the University of Toronto.
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Banting co-discovered this hormone that revolutionized diabetes treatment.
What is insulin?
Banting earned this military award for bravery during World War I
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Banting won this major scientific prize in 1923.
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As a kid he struggled especially with this school subject, saying every word had “three ways of spelling.
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He failed his first year of university but tried again after deciding he wanted to enter this field.
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This student assistant won the coin toss to work with Banting in 1921.
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During the war he served in this branch of the Canadian military.
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The University of Toronto bought the insulin patent for this symbolic price.
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The Banting farmhouse is still preserved today as this type of official site.
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This professor of physiology initially doubted Banting’s abilities but later co-won the Nobel Prize.
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Banting’s key idea relied on tying off this duct in dogs to let digestive tissue degenerate.
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Banting’s reputation brought him into Canada’s artistic circles, and through the Arts and Letters Club he became close friends with this member of the Group of Seven.
Who is A.Y. Jackson?
This public Canadian lab—led by John G. FitzGerald—kept the insulin team from falling apart.
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Banting often felt lonely growing up because all four of these were several years older than he was.
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The war accelerated medical training. Banting’s class squeezed this normally full year into the summer.
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The first human treated with insulin was this 14-year-old boy.
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Outside science, Banting found peace in this artistic hobby, often traveling with artist A.Y. Jackson.
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In 1934, Banting received this honor from King George V, marking his growing national and international reputation.
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A distant relative of Banting—also named William Banting—became famous in the 1860s for writing about this now-common health practice.
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Banting performed his very first operation—draining an abscess—at this major Toronto hospital.
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This chemist from Eli Lilly developed the “isoelectric precipitation” method for large-scale insulin purification.
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Banting died in 1941 after a plane crashed near this Newfoundland community.
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A crater on this celestial body was named after Banting, reflecting his scientific legacy far beyond Earth.
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