Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Sanger has received more than 1,037,853 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Frederick Sanger is the 35th most popular chemist (up from 39th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 329th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Chemist.

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.