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List of contents
Foreword Sir Edwin Southern; Acknowledgements; Brief chronology and honours; Introduction; 1. A Quaker upbringing; 2. How about studying insulin?; 3. Radioactive sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids; 4. Interview of Fred by the author in 1992. Early life; 5. Interview of Fred by the author in 1992. Insulin and the Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University; 6. Interview of Fred by the author, 1992. Nucleic Acids at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge; 7. Post-Sanger sequencing - high throughput, automated sequencing; 8. Cancer - the impact of New Generation Sequencing; 9. Commentaries on Fred Sanger's scientific legacy by Paul Berg, Elizabeth Blackburn, Sir John Sulston, David Bentley and Paul Nurse; Epilogue; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
George G. Brownlee is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He studied under Fred Sanger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, where he later became an independent researcher. He is a recipient of the Biochemical Society's Colworth and Wellcome Trust medals, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences and is an EMBO member. He received the Haemophilia Medal (France) and gave the Owren Lecture (Norway) for his pioneering work on haemophilia. He retired in 2008 to write this biography.
Summary
Drawing, in part, on a rare interview by the author, this is the first full biography of Fred Sanger to be published. Brownlee highlights the remarkable extent of Sanger's scientific achievements, providing a real portrait of the man behind them and considering his continuing legacy as 'the father of genomics'.
