After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
Frederick Sanger Quotes
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
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| Birth: | 13th August, 1918 |
| Death: | 19th November, 2013 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Biochemist |
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Frederick Sanger was born in Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England. He was a British biochemist. In 1958, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin". In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids". The other half was awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant DNA". He earned a B.A. degree in Natural Science from St. John's College, Cambridge University in 1939. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1943.
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