Banting, Sir Frederick

BANTING, SIR FREDERICK (1891-1941). A nalive ol Onlario, Canada, Banting did his most important work in enducrinulogy. His brilliant research culminated in the preparation of the antidiabetic hormone that he called insulin, derived from the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas. He received the Nobel prize in medicine for this wurk together with John MacLeod of the University of Toronto. In 1930, the Banting Institute was founded in Toronto. lie was killed in an airplane crash. 

Banting, Sir Frederick (1891-1941). Isolated the insulin molecule. Nobel Prize 1923. 

The end of the DuPont Fellowship at Columbus coincided with Canada s entry into World War II, in company with the other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Sowden s patriotism, and his desire to be in Canada during the war, took him to the Banting Institute of the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, where he became acquainted with Professor H. 0. L. Fischer, who had recently come from the University of Basle in Switzerland to the University of Toronto at the invitation of Sir Frederick Banting. Sowden joined this group as an Assistant in the Fall of 1939, and, for the next eight years, was involved in the many and varied research activities of Hermann Fischer. 

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