A proud Briton passes on. Frederick Sanger, scientist, double Nobel-Prize winner in Chemistry dies a

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[quote]Frederick Sanger, the British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize, has died at the age of 95.

Fellow researchers have described him as "one of the greatest scientists of any generation" and as "a real hero" of British science.

He is considered the "father of genomics" after pioneering methods to work out the exact sequence of the building blocks of DNA.

Dr Sanger also developed techniques to determine the structure of proteins.

He was born in 1918 in Gloucestershire and initially planned to follow his father into medicine.

However, he followed a career in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.The first came in 1958 for developing techniques to work out the precise chemical structure of proteins.

Dr Sanger's group produced the first whole genome sequence, made up of more than 5,000 pairs of bases, in a virus.

He was awarded his second Nobel Prize in 1980 for developing "Sanger sequencing" - a technique which is still used today.

He was awarded one of Britain's highest honours - the Order of Merit - in 1986. However, he declined a knighthood as he did not want to be called a "Sir".[/quote]

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Wow, I don't think many even got a double Nobel Prize.