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Sanger, Frederick
English biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1958 for determining the structure of insulin, and again in 1980 for work on the chemical structure of genes. He was the first person to be awarded the chemistry prize twice.
Sanger's second Nobel Prize was shared with two US scientists, Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert, for establishing methods of determining the sequence of nucleotides strung together along strands of RNA and DNA. He also worked out the structures of various enzymes and other proteins.
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