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Frederick Sanger
Full Name of the recipient | Frederick Sanger |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1980 |
Share in Award | 25.0% |
Award Shared with | Paul Berg (50.0%) Walter Gilbert (25.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Place of Birth | Rendcombe, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Birth | 13 August 1918 |
Age at the time of Award | 61 years |
Place of Death | Cambridge, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Death | 19 November 2013 |