| RefNo | EC/1935/03 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 184; A00344 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Banting, Sir Frederick Grant: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his work on the pancreas and diabetes which led to the discovery of insulin. Banting, working in the Toronto laboratory with C H Best, carried through the investigation which provided the first direct proof of the existence of a pancreatic hormone and of the possibility of extracting it. They obtained preparations of sufficient potency to restore the blood sugar of diabetic dogs to normal, from pancreas with degenerated acini, from foetal pancreas, and finally, by appropriate methods, from normal adult pancreas. Others, especially Collip, contributed largely to the later developments which made insulin a practical agent in therapeutics and research. Banting, however, must be credited with a full share of the initiative and scientfic imagination which carried the investigation through its initial stage. |
| Proposers | J J R Macleod; A V Hill; C Lovatt Evans; G Elliot Smith; Joseph Barcroft; J T Wilson; C S Sherrington; A E Boycott; Rutherford |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7024 | Banting; Sir; Frederick Grant (1891 - 1941) | 1891 - 1941 |