Banting: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0802073867
- ISBN-13
- 9780802073860
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-01-01
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Author
- Michael Bliss
Description
Frederick Banting was thirty-one when he received the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of insulin. He was catapulted to instant fame, for which he was neither personally nor professionally prepared. Set up as head of his own research institute by a grateful government, he struggled fruitlessly to duplicate his first triumph. His marriage to a beautiful socialite ended in a scandal that rocked Toronto, and he returned to work and painting to dull his frustration. He died in a mysterious plane crash; a new preface to this edition discusses recent findings about the crash. Michaeal Bliss's highly acclaimed biography explores the life of a scientist who during his lifetime was the most famous of all Canadians, but who in his private life stands revealed as a passionate, troubled man, in many ways the victim of his own fame.
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