Frederick Sanger

Sanger, Frederick (1918– ), British biochemist awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on proteins, particularly for first determining the complete structure of bovine insulin (1955). He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert of the United States for research on nucleic acids (DNA), the carriers of genetic traits. His work helped develop a process for analyzing the structure of DNA. Sanger is one of a handful of people to receive 2 Nobel prizes.

See also: Biochemistry; DNA.