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Banting & Best

Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) and Charles Herbert Best (1899-1978): co-discoverers of Insulin

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit."
-Banting
Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of diabetes was a sure death sentence for children, who rarely survived the disease beyond childhood. All that changed in 1921, when Canadian medical scientists Banting and Best discovered the hormone insulin and made it clinically available to diabetics. Their revolutionary scientific achievement earned them the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
Articles:
Insulin, the Miracle Drug
Source:
Monkeyshines on Health and Science June 1998 Pharmacology p. 12
Accession Number:
12908183
Lexile:
1100
Database(s):
Middle Search Plus, Student Research Center
Banting and Macleod Win the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Insulin
Source:
Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
Accession Number:
2621014022
Lexile:
Database(s):
MagillOnHistory
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Source:
Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists 1998 p. 93
Accession Number:
11286951
Lexile:
970
Database(s):
Marshall Cavendish Science Reference Center, Student Research Center