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Frederick Sanger

British biochemist

Written by Joe Stewart Jeffers

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Born:: August 13, 1918, Rendcombe, Gloucestershire, England

Died:: November 19, 2013, Cambridge (aged 95)

Awards And Honors:: Nobel Prize (1980); Copley Medal (1977); Nobel Prize (1958)

Subjects Of Study:: DNA sequencing; insulin

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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. He shared the prize (with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert) in 1980 for his determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. Sanger was the fourth two-time recipient of the Nobel Prize. Sanger was the middle child of Frederick Sanger, a medical practitioner, and Cicely Crewsdon Sanger, the daughter of a wealthy cotton manufacturer. The family ...(100 of 1488 words)

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