born Nov. 14, 1891, Alliston, Ont., Can.
died Feb. 21, 1941, Nfd.
Canadian physician.
He taught at the University of Toronto from 1923. With Charles Best , he was the first to obtain a pancreatic extract of insulin (1921), which, in the laboratory of J.J.R. Macleod , they isolated in a form effective against diabetes. Banting and Macleod received a 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin; Banting voluntarily shared his portion of the prize with Best.