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Frederick Sanger

Frederick SangerBorn: 13-Aug-1918
Birthplace: Rendcombe, Gloucestershire, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Determined sequencing of Insulin

Father: Frederick Sanger (physician)
Brother: Theodore
Wife: Margaret Joan Howe (m. 1940, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Robin (b. 1943)
Son: Peter (b. 1946)
Daughter: Sally Joan (b. 1960)

    High School: Bryanston School
    University: BA, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1939)
    University: PhD Biochemistry, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1943)
    Scholar: Cambridge University (1943-83)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1958
    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1980 (with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert)
    Royal Medal 1969
    Copley Medal 1977
    Order of Merit 1986
    Commander of the British Empire 1963
    Royal Society 1954


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