Frederick Sanger
13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of only a few people to do so. He determined the amino acid sequence of insulin and later developed rapid methods for sequencing DNA, foundational to modern genomics.
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Life events
Frederick Sanger was born in Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe completed the full sequence of the insulin protein, proving proteins have defined sequences.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received the 1958 prize for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe introduced the chain-termination (Sanger) method for sequencing DNA.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the 1980 prize for contributions to determining base sequences in nucleic acids.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died in his sleep in Cambridge, England.
Source: en.wikipedia.org