Frederick Banting led the University of Toronto team that isolated insulin in 1921 and 1922, working with medical student Charles Best in physiologist John Macleod's laboratory and with biochemist James Collip's purification method. The team's extract reversed fatal diabetic comas within weeks of first clinical use, and Banting shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Macleod, controversially splitting his own prize money with Best in protest at Best's exclusion.
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Death DateDied in a plane crash in Newfoundland while on wartime medical liaison service. Frederick Banting
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Led the University of Toronto team; shared the 1923 Nobel Prize with Macleod.
Source The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy Porter
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1922, Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip first used bovine insulin extract in humans
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Frederick Banting, credited with the isolation of insulin
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Why did Frederick Banting split his Nobel Prize money with Charles Best?
He protested Best's exclusion from the 1923 Nobel Prize by giving Best half his own prize money.
Banting shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with physiologist John Macleod for the University of Toronto team's isolation of insulin, but he split his own prize money with medical student Charles Best. Best had worked alongside Banting in Macleod's laboratory during the 1921 and 1922 work that isolated insulin, and Banting made the split as a direct protest at Best's exclusion from the award itself.
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