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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Frederick Sanger
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(b. 1918) Biochemist and the only British scientist to have won two Nobel prizes. The first, in 1958, was for his work in establishing the sequence of 51 amino acids in insulin. The second, shared in 1980, was for the infinitely more complex analysis of the chains forming nucleic acids. Carried out with his team in Cambridge (where the secret of *DNA had earlier been discovered), this work laid the basis for the techniques of genetic engineering. He is a member of the Order of *Merit.
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