Frederick Grant Banting Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person that used insulin on humans.In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Banting shared the award money with his colleague, Dr. Charles Best. Template:As of, Banting, who received the Nobel Prize at age 32, remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine. The Canadian government gave him a lifetime annuity to work on his research. In 1934 he was knighted by King George V. In 2004, Frederick Banting was voted fourth place on The Greatest Canadian.
Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004.
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For Christmas of 1940 he made a radio broadcast that was sent as a message of encouragement to the Canadian troops overseas. This is the only recording of Dr. Banting's voice known to exist.
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Knighted in 1934
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In 1863, William Banting of London England perscribed dieting as a means of curing diabeties. The word "Banting" later became a Synonym for dieting. Dr. Frederick Banting of London Ontario later discovered a much more effective treatment for the same disease.
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During the prohibition era, the only way to obtain alcohol was for its use in "medical" treatment. There are several recordings in Banting's diary of the "medical" use of liquor by both Banting patients and Banting himself.
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Awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with John Macleod, a University of Toronto professor and diabetes expert who assisted him with the discovery of insulin. The two other doctors attributed with the discovery (Charles Best and J.B. Collip) were not named. Banting publicly expressed his anger regarding this situation and both he and Macleod split their award with Best and Collip.
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Always felt uncomfortable within the medical community of his day. As a mean of escaping this he befriended the now legendary Canadian artists The Group of Seven ( Franklin Carmichael, A.J. Casson, Lawren Harris Edwin Holgate, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Emily Carr and others ). Banting had always been an avid amatuer painter and his surviving canvases ( mostly landscapes ) bear a striking similarity to much of the Group of Seven's body of work. In the late 1990's one of his landscape painting was auctioned off by the Banting research center to raise funds for research.
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In a selfless move, the four scientists who discovered Insulin decided not to seek a patent for their life-saving serum, a move that surely cost them a fortune. Instead, they sold the rights to their formulation to The University of Toronto for $1 as a means of ensuring that insulin could be affordably manufactured for years to come. This also ensured that any profits that Insulin brought would be used for medical research into other deadly illnesses, instead of personal gain.
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Created the world's first G-suit to help pilots cope with high-speed flight. This led to his appointment in 1939 as the chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Aviation Medical Research.
$400,000