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Frederick Sanger, 95, Two-Time Winner of Nobel and Pioneer in Genetics, RIP

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Kendall Harmon

[The only] other scientists who have received two Nobels are John Bardeen for physics (1956 and 1972), Marie Curie for physics (1903) and chemistry (1911), and Linus Pauling for chemistry (1954) and peace (1962)….

In a 2001 interview, Dr. Sanger spoke about the challenge of winning two Nobel Prizes.

“It’s much more difficult to get the first prize than to get the second one,” he said, “because if you’ve already got a prize, then you can get facilities for work, and you can get collaborators, and everything is much easier.”

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One comment on “Frederick Sanger, 95, Two-Time Winner of Nobel and Pioneer in Genetics, RIP”

  1. Kendall Harmon says:
    November 21, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    I found this section heartbreaking:

    He received his bachelor’s degree in 1939. Raised as a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector on religious grounds during World War II and remained at Cambridge in those years to work on his doctorate, which he received in 1943.

    Later in life, however, he became an agnostic, saying he lacked hard evidence to support his religious beliefs.

    “In science, you have to be so careful about truth,” he said. “You are studying truth and have to prove everything. I found that it was difficult to believe all the things associated with religion.”