Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

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".