Frederick Sanger

FREDERICK SANGER d2013. English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He is one of only two people to have done so in the same category (the other is John Bardeen in physics) and the fourth person with two Nobel Prizes. He won the 1958 Prize for his research in determining the structure of numerous proteins, most importantly insulin and shared half the 1980 Prize (with Walter Gilbert) for the invention of the first-ever DNA sequencing technique still in broad use today