When was Frederick Sanger born?

Frederick Sanger was born on 13 August 1918 in Rendcomb.

Where did Frederick Sanger study?

Frederick Sanger was educated at University of Cambridge, St John's College, Bryanston School, Malvern College.

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Frederick Sanger

British biochemist (1918–2013)

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

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Born: 13 August 1918 wd
Place of birth: Rendcomb wd
Died: 19 November 2013 wd
Place of death: Cambridge wd
Citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland wd
Occupation: biochemist, chemist, university teacher, conscientious objector wd
Education: University of Cambridge, St John's College, Bryanston School, Malvern College, The Downs, Malvern College Prep School wd
Spouse: Margaret Joan Howe wd

Awards wd

Corday-Morgan Prize (1951)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1963)
Royal Medal (1969)
honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1970)
Croonian Medal and Lecture (1975)
William Bate Hardy Prize (1976)
Copley Medal (1977)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1979)
Canada Gairdner International Award (1979)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1979)
Companion of Honour (1981)
Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science (1982)
Order of Merit (1986)

About

Sanger 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.

Questions

When was Frederick Sanger born?: Frederick Sanger was born on 13 August 1918 in Rendcomb.
Where did Frederick Sanger study?: Frederick Sanger was educated at University of Cambridge, St John's College, Bryanston School, Malvern College.

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