Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian
Medical scientist. His discovery of insulin, which rescued diabetics from certain death, illustrated the marriage of science with medicine, a marriage which remains only partially complete today. It also illustrated the role of intuition in human discovery, as Banting put the problem he was working on out of his mind only to awake with the answer. In his personal life, Banting also exemplified fairness and generosity by sharing his Nobel Prize money with his assistant.