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Frederick Banting
The Life and Legacy of Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. Born in Essa, Ontario, he was the youngest of five children. He was a medical student at the University of Toronto, where he specialized in surgery. During World War I, he served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery while attending the wounded under fire. He is most notably recognized for his co-discovery of insulin, a breakthrough that led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 192…
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An Interactive Constellation
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Frederick Banting's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
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Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.