Banting was Canada's first Nobel Laureate. Banting was born November 14, 1891 in their farmhouse in Alliston, Ontario. (North of Toronto) In the summer of 1921, Banting was being funded for his work on insulin by his father & brother - he was not receiving a salary. During WWI, he received …
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Sir Frederick Banting, with John James Richard Macleod, won the Nobel Prize in 1923 in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hormone insulin. Banting began to test his theory in May 1921. Dr. C.H. Best became Banting's assistant because he had experience in biochemistry and physiology …
Trivia EH? Sir Sandford Fleming
Fleming was born in 1827 in Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1845. Designed the first Canadian postage stamp, known as the Three-Penny Beaver issued in 1851. Was Chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway while being built coast-to-coast. He oversaw the surveys of the prairies and Rocky …