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Google Doodle celebrates ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's Sir Frederick Banting and the discovery of insulin

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Published: November 14, 2016

Today's Google homepage Doodle celebrates the legacy of one of ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s most renowned researchers Sir Frederick Banting.

The Nov. 14 Doodle commemorates World Diabetes Day and what would have been Banting's 125th birthday. Banting was a physician who along with Charles Best discovered insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921, forever changing the way people live with diabetes. Banting was also a Canadian soldier in the First World War.

³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Magazine published a story in 2014, detailing Banting’s experience in the war and the discovery of insulin when he returned home. 

Read about ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's entrepreneurship hub named after Banting and Best

Read about insulin discovery at ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ

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