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The 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin

Banting House in London, Ontario, photographed in 2017; a house associated with Frederick Banting, not the laboratory where the research was done.
Banting House in London, Ontario, photographed in 2017; a house associated with Frederick Banting, not the laboratory where the research was done. Banting House London Ontario · Adam Bishop · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Frederick Banting and John Macleod shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery of insulin.” Banting, born in Alliston, Ontario, was affiliated with the University of Toronto at the time of the award.

Scope & context

The Nobel recognition, not the full research history or the contributions of collaborators who were not named in the prize.

Sources behind this record

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Frederick G. Banting – Facts ↗

NobelPrize.org (Nobel Prize Outreach)

Prize motivation; affiliation at the time of the award