Awards & Winners

Frederick Sanger

Date of Birth 13-August-1918
Place of Birth Rendcomb
(Cotswold District)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Chemist, Biochemist
Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS, FAA was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, one of only two people to have done so in the same category, the fourth person overall with two Nobel Prizes, and the third person overall with two Nobel Prizes in the sciences. 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".

Awards by Frederick Sanger

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frederick Sanger.

1980


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.)

1979


Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For their brilliant development of a new technique for the rapid sequencing of DNA.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his development of methods for the sequencing of DNA and of his contributions to new concepts of gene structure.)

1977


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his distinguished work on the chemical structure of proteins and his studies on the sequences of nucleic acids.)

1971


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his contributions to the study of the structure of complex biochemical substances, and in particular for determining the precise chemical composition of insulin.)

1958


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin)