“When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.”
Quote by Frederick Sanger
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Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist renowned for his pioneering work in protein and nucleic acid sequencing. He won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for his research on methods for determining the sequences of proteins and DNA. more
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