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Sir Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891 and died in 1941. He was a Canadian mediacal scientist that discovered a way to receive an external source of insulin for patients who have diabetes. Frederick was born in Alliston, Ontario,  Canada. Banting studied at the university of Toronto and graduated in 1916.

During Bantings life, he served in the Canadian Army medical Corps in world war one. After winning the Military Cross  in the war Banting proceeded back to school to complete his training as an orthopaedic surgeon at the hospital for sick children in Toronto. Frederick then went to London, Ontario and gave speeches on endocrinology. On the 31^st of October 1920, as he was reading a medical journal, he wrote down an idea for a method to isolate the internal secretion of the pancrease, which is a meaningful step to cure diabetes. After this event he returned to the university of Toronto to continue his research with a young graduate Charles Best as his assistant.

During that summer of hard work, Banting and Best worked on ideas and operations on dogs to tie up their pancreatic ducts. With that method, the pancrease would then be removed and weeks later he hped that it would contain a high concentration of uncontaminated secretion of the pancreas. After a few months it turned out that Banting’s method was working  and that he can keep dogs with diabetes alive.  

After Banting found that his work added up to the cure, his work was the most advanced discovery at that time. After he had discovered the cure Insulin was in a few months been put into a mass production for the whole world. It instantly lengthened the lives of patients who had diabetes and Banting and Best were the first Canadian’s to achieve a worldwide scientific fame.

Many monuments were named after Banting. Banting memorial high school in London was one of his schools that were named after his legacy. Another school is École Banting Middle School in Coquitlam, BC. The Banting Interoretation Centre in Musgrave Harbor. One other place was named after him, the Banting crater on the Moon was named after him.

Frederick Banting was a Canadian hero as well as a worldwide hero for finding the cure that kept people livinvg. He was a legacy to Canada and the rest of the world and his name and all his achievements will always be remembered.