Nobel Prize

I was born on 13th August 1918 in the village of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, where my father, also Frederick Sanger, was a medical practitioner. Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 In our eyes, noses and mouths, we have sensors for light, odours and flavours. Within the body, cells have similar sensors for hormones and signalling substances, such as adrenalin, serotonin, histamine and dopamine. As life evolved, cells have repeatedly used the same basic mechanism for reading their environment: G-protein-coupled…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Sara Snogerup Linse, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2012. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen,…