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Frederick Sanger

1918 - 2013

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Frederick Sanger (; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins, demonstrating in the process that each had a unique, definite structure; this was a foundational discovery for the central dogma of molecular biology. At the newly constructed Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he developed and subsequently refined the first-ever DNA sequencing technique, which vastly expanded the number of feasible experiments in molecular biology and remains in widespread use today. The breakthrough earned him the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Walter Gilbert and Paul Berg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Sanger is the 81st most popular chemist (down from 49th in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 314th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Chemist. Learn more about Frederick Sanger's academic impact at Rankless.

Frederick Sanger is most famous for his work in the field of biochemistry. He is credited with the discovery of the structure of insulin, which led to the development of a treatment for diabetes.

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Among chemists, Frederick Sanger ranks 81 out of 602. Before him are Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, Paul Sabatier, Albert Hofmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Jan Baptist van Helmont. After him are Carl Bosch, Robert S. Mulliken, Friedrich Bergius, Hans Fischer, James B. Sumner, and Richard Laurence Millington Synge.

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Among people born in 1918, Frederick Sanger ranks 15. Before him are Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, Gertrude B. Elion, Robert Wadlow, and Helmut Schmidt. After him are Alberto Ascari, Ernst Otto Fischer, Kai Siegbahn, Katherine Johnson, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Takashi Kasahara. Among people deceased in 2013, Frederick Sanger ranks 12. Before him are Jorge Rafael Videla, Donald A. Glaser, Pran, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, and Võ Nguyên Giáp. After him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Mohammed Omar, Peter O'Toole, Christian de Duve, J. J. Cale, and Giuliano Gemma.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Sanger ranks 342 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Benjamin Disraeli (1804), John Keats (1795), Bede (672), John Davis (1550), and Jane Hawking (1944). After him are Keith Richards (1943), Tony Blair (1953), Edward the Elder (871), Millvina Dean (1912), Julie Andrews (1935), and Stan Laurel (1890).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Sanger ranks 15. Before him are Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), Francis William Aston (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), and Henry Hallett Dale (1875). After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), George Porter (1920), Harry Kroto (1939), and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897).

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