Fred Sanger - Double Nobel Laureate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108794534)

Considered 'the father of genomics', Fred Sanger (1918-2013) paved the way for the modern revolution in our understanding of biology. His pioneering methods for sequencing proteins, RNA and, eventually, DNA earned him two Nobel Prizes. He remains one of only four scientists (and the only British scientist) ever to have achieved that distinction. In this, the first full biography of Fred Sanger to be published, Brownlee traces Sanger's life from his birth in rural Gloucestershire to his retirement in 1983 from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Along the way, he highlights the remarkable extent of Sanger's scientific achievements and provides a real portrait of the modest man behind them. Including an extensive transcript of a rare interview of Sanger by the author, this biography also considers the wider legacy of Sanger's work, including his impact on the Human Genome Project and beyond.

Author: George G. Brownlee
ISBN-10: 110879453X
ISBN-13: 9781108794534
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d