Sir Frederick Grant Banting KBE MC FRS FRSC was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person to use insulin on humans.
Frederick Banting was born on November 14, 1891, in a farm house near Alliston, Ontario. The youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant, he attended public high schools in Alliston. In 1910, he started at Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, in the General Arts program. After failing his first year, he petitioned to join the medical program in 1912 and was accepted. He began medical school in September 1913.2829
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