Fred Sanger 1918-2013

Fred Sanger, 1918-2013, worked all his life in Cambridge. First at the Department of Biochemistry, where he sequenced insulin, the first full sequence of a protein at that time. For this achievement he was awarded his first Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1958.
He then moved to the LMB where he stayed until he retired. In 1980 he received his second Nobel prize in Chemistry, shared with Walter Gilbert for “their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".
His sequencing method has had tremendous impact worldwide and Fred is considered to be the father of Genomics.
Fred Sanger has the distinction of being the only scientist to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice: in 1958 and 1980.
Fred was the head of the LMB's Protein and Nucleic Acid Division when the new lab opened in 1962 and continued to work at the LMB until his retirement in 1983.
This short film is made by Dr Birgitta Olofsson, Newnham College, alumna of the LMB, and Jonnie Howard Film, to celebrate the centenary of Fred’s birth.
Read more about Fred Sanger here:
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He was simply a genius, his Sanger sequencing people followed for more than 40 years! A humble man with doing complex science in a very simple way ! An inspiration for all human being irrespective of profession!

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One of my biochemists heroes.

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we are studying about him in msc biotechnology - from jodhpur, rajasthan

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Really great scientist

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