Frederick Sanger
1918 – 2013 · aged 95
British biochemist (1918–2013)
- Born
- 13 Aug 1918 · Rendcomb
- Died
- 19 Nov 2013 · Cambridge
Life timeline
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- 13 Aug 1918BornBorn in Rendcomb
- 1951AwardCorday-Morgan Prize
- 1954AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1958AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1963AwardCommander of the Order of the British Empire
- 1969AwardRoyal Medal
- 1970AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 1975AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
- 1976AwardWilliam Bate Hardy Prize
- 1977AwardCopley Medal
- 1979AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1979AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
- 1979AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 19 Nov 2013DiedDied in Cambridge
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1918 – 2013).
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
Biography
Frederick Sanger (13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
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.
Text from the Wikipedia article Frederick Sanger, CC BY-SA 4.0
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