Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS (/ˈsæŋər/) (born 13 August 1918 Rendcomb) is a British biochemist who was twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry the only person to have been so. In 1980 Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".