Greatest Canadian

... Greatest Canadian Sir Frederick Grant Banting To millions at home and abroad he's known as the man who discovered insulin, bringing new hope to diabetics the world over. Frederick Banting's research in the early 1920s brought him worldwide acclaim and earned him a lifetime regular payments from the federal government, a knight in the British crown and Canada's first ever Nobel Prize. But not long before he made his mark in medical history, Banting was just a young doctor and First World War veteran struggling with a medical practice in London, Ontario while teaching medical classes at the University of Western Ontario. But that all changed on Oct. 31, 1920 after a journal article about diabetes research blew a moment of inspiration. The 28-year-old quickly recorded his thoughts in a notebook -- to try and extract the mysterious hormone associated with the disease that has no solution from the

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