Sir Frederick Grant Banting (* 14 November 1891 in Alliston, Ontario (Canada); "† 21 February 1941) applies for that together with Charles Best as Miterfinder insulin (after Nicolae Paulescu).

Banting is born as the youngest of five children of the William Thompson Banting and and its wife Margaret Grant. After its school time in Alliston it begins a theology study at the University OF Toronto, however soon the subject changes and locks 1916 its medicine study. After it it occurs the Canadian army immediately and serves during the First World War in France.

To the war Banting returns 1919 to Canada and practices as a physician in London, Ontario. It specializes as a child physician and teaches at the University OF Western Ontario the subject pharmacology.

Already early Banting is interested in diabetes and taken the research of Naunyn, Minowski, Opie and shepherd et al. up, which assume that diabetes is caused by a lack of a hormoneal protein, which is produced in the Langerhans islands. Naunyn et al. it believed that insulin was responsible for the regularization of the sugar household. First attempts to replace the missing insulin by feeding the patients with Pankreas fail however, because insulin is destroyed by proteolytic enzymes of the Pankreas. Banting comes by an article of Moses baron on the idea that the destruction of the insulin by Trypsin could be caused. By destruction of the trypsinbildenden cells Banting as well as its assistant Charles Best succeed in isolating insulin for the first time.

1923 receives Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of the insulin to the Nobelpreis for medicine. The decision causes protest, since Macleod is to have only made its laboratory available. However the physiology student Charles Herbert Best (1899-1978), taken part considerably in the isolation of insulin, remains unconsidered with the honour. 1934 are struck Banting by the British king George V. to the knight.

See also: Nicolae Paulescu

Banting dies on 21 February 1941 as a liaison officer with an aircraft crash on the way from Canada to England over Newfoundland.

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