Sir Frederick Banting (1891–1941)
Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.
Charles H. Best (1899-1978)
American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin.
J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935)
Scottish biochemist and physiologist who contributed to the discovery and isolation of insulin.
Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)
Discover the life of Dorothy Hodgkin, whose tireless work revealed the exact structure of insulin using X-ray crystallography.
James Collip (1892-1965)
Canadian biochemist who was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin.
Dr. Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)
A British molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1958 for determining the primary structure of insulin; the first protein to have its sequence determined.
Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (1869–1931)
Learn about the man who successfully demonstrated the efficacy of insulin before the Toronto team!
Leonard Thompson (1908-1935)
The first person in the world to receive insulin as a treatment for diabetes.