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Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

August 13, 1918 –November 19, 2013

Biochemist, Chemist, University teacher, Conscientious objector

Lived 95 years

Born in
Rendcomb
Passed away in
Cambridge

Frederick Sanger (; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins, demonstrating in the process that each had a unique, definite structure; this was a foundational discovery for the central dogma of molecular biology.

At the newly constructed Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he developed and subsequently refined the first-ever DNA sequencing technique, which vastly expanded the number of feasible experiments in molecular biology and remains in widespread use today. The breakthrough earned him the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Walter Gilbert and Paul Berg.

He is one of only three people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in the same category (the others being John Bardeen in physics and Karl Barry Sharpless in chemistry), and one of five persons with two Nobel Prizes.

Awards: Corday-Morgan Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Royal Medal, honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, Croonian Medal and Lecture, William Bate Hardy Prize, Copley Medal, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Education: University of Cambridge, St John's College, Bryanston School, Malvern College

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sanger