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How does one paint a picture of Fred Sanger (Fig. 8.1)? After all, his life of techniques was devoted to the visual. He loved painting as a child and maintained that hobby until his twilight years. He shunned column chromatography, when possible, for paper and thin-layer techniques. Fred wanted to see the results. His polyacrylamide sequencing gels were visual masterpieces.
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Sidney Altman shared the 1989 Noble Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Cech “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA” [18].
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François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis” [23].
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Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death” [27].
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The NRDC was set up after World War II to commercialize British publicly funded research.
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Jeffers, J.S. (2017). The Man and His Legacy. In: Frederick Sanger. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54709-1_8
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