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Google Doodle celebrates Â鶹ÊÓƵ'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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ’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.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Magazine published a story in 2014, detailing Banting’s experience in the war and the discovery of insulin when he returned home. 

Read about Â鶹ÊÓƵ's entrepreneurship hub named after Banting and Best

Read about insulin discovery at Â鶹ÊÓƵ

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