Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)

Awarded the Prize “for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin.”

British biochemist. He was born on August 13, 1918 at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, Engl. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he took his B.A. degree in natural sciences in 1939 his Ph.D. degree in 1943. He was Head of the Division of Protein Chemistry in the Laboratory for Melecular Biology at Cambridge. In 1980 Sanger was awarded twicely Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Sanger died on November 19, 2013 in Cambridge, eastern England.