Frederick Sanger Quiz
Frederick Sanger Quiz Questions and Answers
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
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
External links
- The Sanger Institute
- About the 1958 Nobel Prize
- About the 1980 Nobel Prize
- Fred Sanger 2001 Video Documentary by The Vega Science Trust
- National Portrait Gallery
- Frederick Sanger interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, 24th August 2007 (film), also available on YouTube. Duration 57 minutes.
- Interviews with Nobel Prize winning scientists: Dr Frederick Sanger, British Broadcasting Corporation, c. 1985. Interviewed by Lewis Wolpert. Duration 1 hour.