Frederick Banting - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

Prior to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1923 – which he shared with Macleod –he received the Reeve Prize of the University of Toronto (1922). In 1923, the Canadian Parliament granted him a Life Annuity of $7,500. In 1928 Banting gave the Cameron Lecture in Edinburgh. He was a member of numerous medical academies and societies in Canada and abroad, including the British and American Physiological Societies, and the American Pharmacological Society. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1934. In May, 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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