Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined ...

Charles Herbert Best was born in Maine, the son of a physician ... student at the University of Toronto when he joined Frederick Banting in his work to isolate the pancreatic hormone insulin ...

In 2004, Frederick Banting was voted 4th place on The Greatest Canadian. Frederick Banting was born on 14 November 1891, in the downstairs front bedroom of a farm house near Alliston, Ontario.