Frederick Sanger Research Paper

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Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist and was born at August 1918 and died on19
November 2013. Frederick Sanger twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, He and John
Bardeen in physics the two people to have done so in the same category, and the forth person overall with two Nobel Prizes. In 1958, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry “ for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin”. In the beginning of 1940s, Frederick Sanger started his work of compositions of insulin molecule, which is a hormone that regulates sugar level in the blood and it is a small protein secreted by the pancreas. There are two reasons why insulin was attractive. Firstly, it was readily available one of the few pure proteins

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