Fred Sanger – Father of Molecular Biology
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Presenter: Fred Sanger
Published: March 2009
Age: 14-19 and upwards
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Tags: sanger, insulin, dna, sequencing
Type: Lectures
Source/institution: Vega
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Fred Sanger is often considered the father of modern molecular biology, and is one of the few people to have been awarded two Nobel prizes. Working in Cambridge he developed a new chromatographic method for determining amino-acid end-groups. His new chromatographic results on the free amino groups of insulin were published in 1945 and the complete sequence of insulin in 1955.