Born on August 13, 1918, and died on November 19, 2013, 95 year old Frederick Sanger made some pretty extroidinary discoveries. Born and raised in Rendcombe, England, Sanger attended Bryanston School and St. John's College at the University …show more content…
As some of us may have grown up in a household with 2 or 3 or more siblings, Frederick grew up with one, Theodore Sanger. Some may say only having one sibling helped Sanger acheive work, and have the spotlight. Although we do not know whether this is true or not, Frederick Sanger was a pretty intelligent man. He received awards such as the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley medal, Louisa Gross Horwitz prize, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the Gairdner Foundation International Award. These many awards show how intelligent and passionate Frederick was about learning and excelling in science. Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on protein structure. He was awarded the Nobel Prize again at a later date, sharing it with two other scientists, for determining the amino acid sequence of DNA. These outstanding discoveries made by Frederick, and others, have provided us with a way for more in depth research on various topics such as protein structure and amino acid