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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger - Facts

Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

Born: 13 August 1918, Rendcombe, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"

Field: Biochemistry

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