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Frederick Sanger

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Frederick Sanger

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British biochemist (1918–2013)

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Frederick Sanger was born on 13 August 1918 and died on 19 November 2013. He was the father of three children.

Sanger received the Nobel Prize twice. His work is recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Copley Medal collection.

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Nobel Prizes (2)

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1958

    “for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin”

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1980

    “for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Frederick
Family name
Sanger
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth
Rendcomb
Place of death
Cambridge
Occupation
conscientious objector
Employer
University of Cambridge
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
agnostic atheism
Award
Order of the British Empire
Academic degree
honorary doctorate
Doctoral student
Elizabeth Blackburn
Field of work
biochemistry
Image
Frederick Sanger2.jpg
Number of children
3
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Frederick Sanger
date of birth
1918-08-13
date of death
2013-11-19
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
student
Elizabeth Blackburn
name in native language
Frederick Sanger
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
interested in
biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Frederick Sanger (/ˈsæŋər/; 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.

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