Frederick Banting was 32 when he became the youngest Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of insulin and its role in diabetes in his lab at the University of Toronto. A surgeon and orthopedist, Banting shared the award with his student Charles Best. That same year, the Canadian government granted Banting a lifetime annuity to continue his work. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Discovery of insulin & its role in diabetes earned Banting Nobel Prize in Medicine at age 32
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
