Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

“for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin; for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin, and later for his contributions to determining the base sequences in nucleic acids.

Field
Chemistry · Biochemistry
Lifespan
1918–2013