Frederick Sanger Quiz

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, one of only two people to have done so in the same category (the other is John Bardeen in Physics), the fourth person overall with two Nobel Prizes, and the third person overall with two Nobel Prizes in the sciences. Source: Wikipedia

Frederick Sanger Quiz Questions and Answers

Frederick Sanger, the fourth person to win two Nobel Prizes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When did Frederick Sanger first win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) 1958
b) 1952
c) 1948
d) 1960

2. When did Frederick Sanger win Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the second time?
a) 1964
b) 1980
c) 1972
d) 1976

3. When was Frederick Sanger born?
a) 22 February 1914
b) 23 May 1916
c) 13 August 1918
d) 5 December 1922

4. Where was Frederick Sanger born?
a) Oxford
b) Liverpool
c) Chelsea
d) Rendcombe

5. Which college did Frederick Sanger attend?
a) Pembroke College
b) St. John’s College
c) Royal Victoria College
d) McDonald College

6. For what did Frederick Sanger first win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) Work on the structure of insulin
b) Development of radiocarbon dating
c) Discovery of polarography
d) Work on nucleotides

7. For what did Frederick Sanger win Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the second time?
a) Discovery of sugar nucleotides
b) Determination of base sequences of nucleic acids
c) Work concerning chemical bonds
d) Widening the scope of thermodynamics

8. When was Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute founded?
a) 1986
b) 1975
c) 1992
d) 1982

9. When did Frederick Sanger die?
a) 30 January 1992
b) 6 April 1997
c) 5 September 2004
d) 19 November 2013

10. Where did Frederick Sanger die?
a) Manchester
b) Bristol
c) Cambridge
d) Oslo

Frederick Sanger Quiz Questions and Answers

Amino acid sequence of bovine insulin using 3 letter code and showing the disulfide bridges. Sequence down the page. Drawn using Adobe Illustrator CS5 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When did Frederick Sanger first win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) 1958

2. When did Frederick Sanger win Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the second time?
b) 1980

3. When was Frederick Sanger born?
c) 13 August 1918

4. Where was Frederick Sanger born?
d) Rendcombe

5. Which college did Frederick Sanger attend?
b) St. John’s College

6. For what did Frederick Sanger first win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) Work on the structure of insulin

7. For what did Frederick Sanger win Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the second time?
b) Determination of base sequences of nucleic acids

8. When was Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute founded?
c) 1992

9. When did Frederick Sanger die?
d) 19 November 2013

10. Where did Frederick Sanger die?
c) Cambridge

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