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Frederick Sanger, 95, Two-Time Winner of Nobel and Pioneer in Genetics, Dies
By DENISE GELLENE
Published: November 20, 2013
Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist whose discoveries about the chemistry of life led to the decoding of the human genome and to the development of new drugs like human growth hormone, earning him two Nobel Prizes, a distinction held by only three other scientists, died on Tuesday in Cambridge, England. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by Adrian Penrose, communications manager at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. Dr. Sanger lived in a nearby village called Swaffham Bulbeck.
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He received his bachelor’s degree in 1939. Raised as a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector on religious grounds during World War II and remained at Cambridge in those years to work on his doctorate, which he received in 1943.
Later in life, however, he became an agnostic, saying he lacked hard evidence to support his religious beliefs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/science/frederick-sanger-two-time-nobel-winning-scientist-dies-at-95.html?_r=0
A long, productive life.
