Fred Sanger - Double Nobel Laureate: A Biography - Hardcover

Brownlee, George G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107083346 ISBN 13: 9781107083349

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

Drawing, in part, on a rare interview by the author, this is the first full biography of Fred Sanger to be published. Brownlee highlights the remarkable extent of Sanger's scientific achievements, providing a real portrait of the man behind them and considering his continuing legacy as 'the father of genomics'.

About the Author

George G. Brownlee is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He studied under Fred Sanger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, where he later became an independent researcher. He is a recipient of the Biochemical Society's Colworth and Wellcome Trust medals, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences and is an EMBO member. He received the Haemophilia Medal (France) and gave the Owren Lecture (Norway) for his pioneering work on haemophilia. He retired in 2008 to write this biography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107083346
• ISBN 13: 9781107083349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223