Frederick Sanger, 2-time Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, dies at 95
British biochemist Frederick Sanger, who twice won the Nobel Prize in chemistry and was a pioneer of genome sequencing, has died at the age of 95.
British biochemist Frederick Sanger, who twice won the Nobel Prize in chemistry and was a pioneer of genome sequencing, has died at the age of 95.
His death was confirmed yesterday by the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which Sanger helped found in 1962.
The laboratory praised Sanger, who died in his sleep on Tuesday at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, as an "extremely modest and self-effacing man whose contributions have made an extraordinary impact on molecular biology".
Sanger was one of just four individuals to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes; the others being Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen.
Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, called Sanger "the father of the genomic era".
Sanger first won the Nobel Prize in 1958 at the age of 40 for his work on the structure of proteins. He had determined the sequence of the amino acids in insulin and showed how they are linked together.