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Nobel Prize winner Sanger dies at 95 Frederick Sanger: Nobel Prize winner dies at 95
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Frederick Sanger, British biochemist who twice won Nobel Prize, dies at 95 Frederick Sanger, the British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize has died at the age of 95.
More to follow. Fellow researchers have described him as "one of the greatest scientists of any generation" and as "a real hero" of British science.
He is considered the 'father of genomics' after pioneering methods to work out the exact sequence of the building blocks of DNA.
Dr Sanger also developed techniques to determine the structure of proteins.
He was born in 1918 in Gloucestershire and initially planned to follow his father into medicine.
However, he perused a career in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.
He is the only Briton to win two Nobel Prizes and the only scientists to have been awarded the prize for Chemistry twice.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, the director of the medical research charity the Wellcome Trust, said: "I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Fred Sanger, one of the greatest scientists of any generation and the only Briton to have been honoured with two Nobel Prizes.
"Fred can fairly be called the father of the genomic era: his work laid the foundations of humanity's ability to read and understand the genetic code, which has revolutionised biology and is today contributing to transformative improvements in healthcare."
Prof Colin Blakemore, the former chief executive of the UK Medical Research Council, said: "The death of a great person usually provokes hyperbole, but it is impossible to exaggerate the impact of Fred Sanger's work on modern biomedical science.
"His invention of the two critical technical advances - for sequencing proteins and nucleic acids - opened up the fields of molecular biology, genetics and genomics.
"He remains the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry - recognising his unique contribution to the modern world.
"Yet he was a disarmingly modest man, who once said: 'I was just a chap who messed about in his lab'.
"Fred Sanger was a real hero of twentieth-century British science."