Frederick Sanger was born on August 13, 1918 in Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was married to Margaret Joan Howe. He died on November 19, 2013 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
The only Briton to win two Nobel Prizes, and the only scientist to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980.
He originally planned to become a physician, like his father. However, he became interested in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.
He is considered the "father of genomics" for pioneering methods to work out the exact sequence of the building blocks of DNA. He also developed techniques to determine the structure of proteins.
He was awarded one of the UK's highest honors, the Order of Merit, in 1986. He declined a knighthood, as he did not want to be called a "Sir".
Long after receiving his first Nobel, he continued to perform many experiments himself, instead of assigning them to a junior researcher, as is usual in modern labs.