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Feb. 22, 1980 - 40th Anniversary of Sir Frederick Grant Banting's death: 40 years ago, on February 22nd 1981, Sir Frederick Grant Banting, who became history as one of the discoverers of the insulin, died. Born on November 14th 1891 in Alliston/Canada, Banting studied medicine at the university of Toronto. During the first world war he was in Europe as a military doctor and he was also hurt. After the end of the war he worked at a hospital for children in Toronto. In the year 1921, together with John James Richard Macleod and Charles H. Best, Banting succeeded in discovering the insulin, an important cure for diabetes. Because of the Frederick Banting was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the year 1923; in the same year he got a professiorial chair for medical research at the university of Toronto. 1930 he founded the Banting Institute, which was most of all busy with the research of cancer and silicosis. Frederick Banting, who liked to paint and to munufacture plastics of wood during his spare time, died at an air disaster on February 21st, 1941 in New foundland
