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Frederick Sanger was born on August 13, 1918 at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire. Frederick went to school at Bryanston School and at St. John's college.
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Frederick Sanger entered St. John's college. He was mostly concentrated on chemistry and physics, but later on he went to the field of biochemistry.
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Frederick Sanger got his bachelor's degree. After he got his bachelor's degree he stayed one more year in Cambridge to take an advance course in biochemistry.
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Frederick Sanger married Margaret Joan Howe and had two kids. They have two boys and one girl.
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Sanger started to work on identifying the free amino groups in insulin. During his research he discovered ways to order the amnio acids. He became the first person to obtain a protein sequence.
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Frederick Sanger was on the staff of the Medical Research Council at Cambridge University. He worked there for a couple of years.
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Frederick Sanger detailed the molecular structure of insulin. His discovery allowed for the affordable synthetic production of insulin.
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Frederick Sanger won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in his work on the structure of protein. He proved that proteins were ordered molecules.
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Frederick Sander moved the Medical Research Council to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. There Francis Crick, John Kendrew, Aaron Klug and others were all working on a DNA-related problem.
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Frederick Sanger discovered formylmethionine tRNA (transfer ribonucleic acid). tRNA triggers the synthesis of protein in bacteria.
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Frederick Sanger analyzed the nucleotide sequence of RNA from a bacterium.
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Sanger's team at Cambridge completed the first analysis of the complete base sequence of genetic material in a virus. They also made the first discovery of a gene nestled inside another gene.
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Frederick Sanger won a second Nobel Prize. He shared it with Walter Gilbert, for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids, and Paul Berg for his work on recombinant DNA.
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Frederick Sanger retired. He now spends most of his time in his garden.
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The Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council established the Sanger Centre. Sanger Centre is a research center for furthering the knowledge of genomes.
