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Interesting facts about Sir Frederick Banting

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best recently received Maclean's magazine's prestigious title of greatest Canadian innovators for discovering insulin - delivering hope to millions Recently voted the fourth greatest Canadian of all time in CBC's The Greatest Canadian Contest. Was the youngest person in the history of the world to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923. An accomplished artist, Banting was best friends with the Group of Seven's A.Y. Jackson. Was a decorated hero in World War I. Had Canada's first man-rated centrifuge built in Ontario. Had first decompression chamber built in Toronto, second one in London - this is the technology that to this day allows for the pressurization of cockpits in airplanes.

Source: CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION