Frederick Sanger
- Category : Science-Chemistry
- Type : PE
- Profile : 4/6 - Opportunistic / Role Model
- Definition : Split - Small (12,36)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Explanation 2
Biography
British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, one of only two people to have done so in the same category (the other is John Bardeen in Physics), the fourth person overall with two Nobel Prizes, and the third person overall with two Nobel Prizes in the sciences. In 1958, he was awarded 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".
He died 19 November 2013.