Frederick Banting
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2000
- Category
- History, General, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459710849
- Publish Date
- Jan 2000
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.
About the author
Stephen Eaton Hume teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He has published three picture books: Midnight on the Farm, Rainbow Bay, and Red Moon Follows Truck. His children's novel A Miracle for Maggie, available from Dundurn,was nominated for the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year. He has also published the biography Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist for young people.
