Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FAA
Born	(1918-08-13)13 August 1918 Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England
Died	19 November 2013(2013-11-19) (aged 95) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England[1]
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Amino acid sequence of insulin Sanger sequencing Sanger Centre
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1967) Royal Medal (1969) Gairdner Foundation International Award (1971) William Bate Hardy Prize (1976) Copley Medal (1977) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1979) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Thesis	The metabolism of the amino acid lysine in the animal body (1943)
Doctoral advisor	Albert Neuberger[2]
Doctoral students	George Brownlee[3] Elizabeth Blackburn Rodney Porter

Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FAA (/ˈsæŋər/; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was an English biochemist.

Sanger is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the only person to have been so. Sanger is the fourth person to have been given two Nobel Prizes, either individually or in tandem with others.^{[Note 1]}

In 1958 he was given a Nobel prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin".

In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids". The other half was given to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA".

1. ↑ "Seven days: 22–28 November 2013". Nature. 503 (7477): 442–443. 2013. Bibcode:2013Natur.503..442.. doi:10.1038/503442a. S2CID 4465323.
2. ↑ Allen, A.K.; Muir, H.M. (2001). "Albert Neuberger. 15 April 1908 – 14 August 1996". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 47: 369–382. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2001.0021. JSTOR 770373. PMID 15124648. S2CID 72943723.
3. ↑ Brownlee, George G. (2015). "Frederick Sanger CBE CH OM. 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 61: 437–466. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0013. S2CID 86297413.