Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)

Awarded the Prize “for his contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.”

British biochemist. Sanger was born in Rendcombe, Gloucestershire, Engl on August 13, 1918. He was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he earned his doctorate in biochemistry in 1943. He was the Head of the Division of Protein Chemistry in the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology at Cambridge. In 1958, Sanger was awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry for the first time. Sanger died on November 19, 2013 in Cambridge, eastern England.