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Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FAA (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
Frederick Sanger (born August 13, 1918, Rendcombe, Gloucestershire, England—died November 19, 2013, Cambridge) was an English biochemist who was twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He was awarded the prize in 1958 for his determination of the structure of the insulin molecule.
Frederick Sanger was born on August 13, 1918, at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, the second son of Frederick Sanger, M.D., a medical practitioner and his wife Cicely. He was educated at Bryanston School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in natural sciences in 1939.
Jan 1, 2014 · Frederick Sanger, 'the father of genomics', was one of just four scientists to win two Nobel prizes and the only one to receive both in chemistry. Both were awarded for the invention of...
Nov 19, 2013 · Frederick Sanger. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958. Born: 13 August 1918, Rendcombe, United Kingdom. Died: 19 November 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin” Prize share: 1/1.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 was divided, one half awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA", the other half jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
Nov 19, 2013 · Most scientists would consider a Nobel Prize the crowning achievement of a life's work; Dr. Frederick Sanger has won this honor not once, but twice. He received his first Nobel in 1958 for successfully determining the exact sequence of the 51 amino acids that make up a molecule of insulin.
Nov 20, 2013 · Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist whose discoveries about the chemistry of life led to the decoding of the human genome and to the development of new drugs like human growth hormone, earning...
Nov 20, 2013 · Frederick Sanger, the British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize, has died at the age of 95. Fellow researchers have described him as "one of the greatest scientists of any...
Nov 20, 2013 · Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the “father of genomics”, died yesterday at the age of 95. The founding member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and the person after whom the Sanger Institute is named, he was known as an extremely modest and self-effacing man whose innumerable scientific contributions have ...
