Sanger

Sanger definition - medical

Sang·er (săngˈər), Frederick Born 1918.

British biochemist. He won a 1958 Nobel Prize for determining the order of amino acids in the insulin molecule and shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing methods for mapping DNA structure and function.
Sanger definition - medical

Sanger, Margaret Higgins 1883-1966.

American nurse who campaigned widely for birth control and founded (1929) the organization that became the Planned Parenthood Federation (1942).

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