The story of Dr. Frederick Banting, a veteran of the Canadian army medical corps in World War 1, the man who discovered insulin. His often-strained relationships with J.J.R. MacLeod, his patron at the University of Toronto, Charles Best, his partner and research assistant, and James Collip, the biochemist who worked with them, are examined. The passion and the agony felt by the people involved in Canada's first great scientific achievement are recreated. Also profiled is of Elizabeth Hughes, the young daughter of the American Secretary of State, whose life was among the first of millions saved by insulin. Based on Michael Bliss's The Discovery of Insulin, and Banting, a biography. (Award: Toronto.).
"The story of Dr. Frederick Banting, a veteran of the Canadian army medical corps in World War 1, the man who discovered insulin. His often-strained relationships with J.J.R. MacLeod, his patron at the University of Toronto, Charles Best, his partner and research assistant, and James Collip, the biochemist who worked with them, are examined. The passion and the agony felt by the people involved in Canada's first great scientific achievement are recreated. Also profiled is Elizabeth Hughes, the young daughter of the American Secretary of State, whose life was among the first of millions saved by insulin. Based on Michael Bliss's The Discovery of Insulin, and Banting, a biography. (Award: Toronto.)."
"A two-episode docudrama of the efforts by Bunting to discover a treatment for diabetes."
"The story of Dr. Frederick Banting, a veteran of the Canadian army medical corps in World War 1, the man who discovered insulin. His often-strained relationships with J.J.R. MacLeod, his patron at the University of Toronto, Charles Best, his partner and research assistant, and James Collip, the biochemist who worked with them, are examined. The passion and the agony felt by the people involved in Canada's first great scientific achievement are recreated. Also profiled is of Elizabeth Hughes, the young daughter of the American Secretary of State, whose life was among the first of millions saved by insulin. Based on Michael Bliss's The Discovery of Insulin, and Banting, a biography. (Award: Toronto.)."@en
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