Frederick Banting

by Stephen Eaton Hume

Overview

Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780968816639
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	The Quest Library
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Stephen Eaton Hume has published a young-adult novel, a creative non-fiction, a biography, and three picture books. His articles have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Medical Post, the Vancouver Sun, and other publications. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Victoria.