Banting: A BiographyUniversity of Toronto Press, 1. jaan 1992 - 336 pages 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. |
Contents
FOREWORD Writing about Banting | 7 |
CHAPTER ONE A White Boy a Right Boy | 15 |
CHAPTER TWO Becoming a Man | 28 |
CHAPTER THREE Getting out of Town | 44 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Discovery of Insulin | 61 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Canadian to the Core | 157 |
CHAPTER NINE Banting versus Banting | 184 |
CHAPTER TEN Banting versus Capitalism | 206 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN Maturity | 231 |
CHAPTER TWELVE Warrior Scientist | 254 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Dark Sense of Duty | 275 |