Frederick Sanger: Biography of a Great Thinker || History of Science
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- Frederick Sanger (1918 - 2013) was one of the giants of molecular biology. He won the Nobel prize twice. The first was awarded in 1958, for finding the amino acid sequence of insulin (the first protein to be sequenced). Sanger won his second Nobel Prize in 1980, for his efficient method of sequencing DNA (his group had sequenced the genome of bacteriophage phiX174, as well as being the first to sequence human genes from mitochondria). Sanger's research group is also remembered for sequencing rRNA from bacterial ribosomes.
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When Dad was a fellow at the MRC in Cambridge in the 60s, Fred Sanger was one of his mentors. Sanger was one of the greatest scientific minds in history and his contributions to humankind are immeasurable. Yet he was a soft spoken, humble man who was repeatedly offered knighthood by the Crown, but always declined because he did not want anyone to call him "Sir."
protamine4 How wonderful your Dad got to know this great man! Thanks for sharing. :)
Socratica Thank you for honoring this great man with your video. I actually met Sanger but I don't remember because I was only 3 or 4 then. Dad went on to a distinguished career in protein science and is 84 and still active as a scientist. He still talks often about his year as a Guggenheim Fellow in Cambridge and it is clearly one of his cherished memories, and the reverence he holds for Fred Sanger is always apparent. My parents actually became friends with Sanger and his wife and they say the Sangers were lovely people, remarkably ordinary. At Cambridge, Sanger told Dad he was going to sequence DNA and the rest is history. Dad said Sanger was a notoriously bad cricket player and the labs at the MRC played fierce matches between each other and Fred usually managed to contribute a "duck" or zero runs. Lol.
I went to his boarding school Bryanston and never heard his name mentioned- you’d think they would have named the science block after him.
Came here because I like Frederick. Now I like you too.
I love these videos! I could watch them all day. 🥰
Thank you so much.
amazing man.
Let us not forget that Rosalind Franklin discovered the double-helix of DNA in 1953. Watson and Crick merely published her work.
Let's be fair, now. W&C certainly made their own contributions-it's more that they failed to acknowledge the source of the x-ray crystallography picture that let them take measurements to then do their part. If you're interested in the structure of DNA, we have a video about it here:
bit.ly/DNASocratica. Give it a shot! 💜🦉
🙏🙏🙏Unbeatable success