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Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)

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Frederick Banting

Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891–1941)

Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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February 21

Day of the year

February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 313 days remain until the end of the year.
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