Alessandro Volta, Conte
Alessandro Volta, Conte , 1745-1827, Italian physicist. He was professor of physics at the Univ. of Pavia from 1779 and became famous for his work in electricity. Napoleon I made him a count and a senator of the kingdom of Lombardy. Volta invented the so-called Volta's pile (or voltaic pile); the electrophorus ; an electric condenser; and the voltaic cell . The volt , a unit of electrical measurement, is named for Volta.
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Frederick Sanger--winner of 2 Nobel Prizes
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...biochemist and molecular biologist Frederick Sanger won the Nobel Prize in chemistry...base sequence of nucleic acids. Sanger shared the 1980 prize with Paul...of many other complex proteins. Frederick Sanger, the son of a physician...
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Sanger, Elmer F.
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/11/2000; 367 words
; Sanger, Elmer F. "Dick" Friday, February 11, 2000 Sanger, Elmer F. "Dick" Feb. 10, 2000, age 93 years...Brother-in-law of Carl (June) Wendroth and Rev. Frederick (Geraldine) Gehrke. Preceded in death by brothers...
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FREDERICK HOME SALES
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/5/2001; 673 words
; ...were recently recorded in Frederick County and supplied to The...William L. and Beverly M. Sanger to Tina M. Lazar and Frederick N. Reidenbach Jr., $280...POINT OVERLOOK CT., 6809-Frederick G. Wood Sr. to Charles H...
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For kids: a different kind of gold medal.(THE HOME FORUM)(Nobel Prize awardees)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 10/21/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...exciting time. British scientist Frederick Sanger received news of his Nobel Prize...Twenty-two years later, Dr. Sanger stunned the world and won a second...prestigious prize twice. Dr. Sanger won his awards for work with proteins...
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The Tedious Process Of Sequencing a Gene
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/24/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...the Maxam-Gilbert chemical method or the Sanger enzymatic method (see illustration, Page 13...C's and G's in that piece of DNA. The Sanger method, named for Dr. Frederick Sanger of Cambridge, England, also creates various...
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An Automated DNA Sequencer
Magazine article from: The Scientist; 9/27/2004; ; 556 words
; ...its very existence to two men. The first is Frederick Sanger, who in 1977 developed the method for DNA...Hunkapiller and Lloyd Smith) in 1986 took Sanger's method and made it better. Sanger's enzymatic approach relies on specially...
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Paul Berg-American Nobel Laureate
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Gilbert (1932- ) and English chemist Frederick Sanger (1918- ). Gilbert determined the sequence...single- and double-stranded DNA, and Sanger determined the base sequence of nucleic acid. Sanger had previously won the 1958 Nobel Prize...
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Gene device slashes the cost of decoding
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...a chemical process invented by Frederick Sanger in 1977. But genome centers based...reading length now attained by the Sanger-based machines. That shorter...technology avoids a pitfall of the Sanger method, which is that the fragments...
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DNA Sequencing: A Race Toward the $1,000 Genome.
Magazine article from: Genomics and Proteomics; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; By Emma Hitt The Sanger method of DNA sequencing, developed...established nearly 30 years ago by Frederick Sanger. This method involves separation of...near-term advance using standard Sanger methodology," says Daniel Ehrlich...
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New health HQ named
Newspaper article from: Gloucestershire Echo, The; 8/2/2008; 314 words
; ...every 100 staff. Trust bosses have also agreed on a name for the headquarters. The Sanger Building has been chosen in tribute to Dr Frederick Sanger. Dr Sanger was born in Rendcombe and won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1958 and 1980 for advances...
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Sanger, Frederick
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Sanger, Frederick BRITISH CHEMIST 1918 – Frederick Sanger is surely one of the...sequences in nucleic acids." Sanger retired in 1983 after forty...Internet Resources Sanger, Frederick (1958). "The Chemistry of...
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Frederick Sanger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Frederick Sanger The English biochemist Frederick Sanger (born 1918) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical structure of insulin. Frederick Sanger, son of Frederick Sanger, a medical practitioner...
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Sanger, Fred
Book article from: Genetics
Sanger, Fred Molecular Biologist...Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, Fred Sanger has been breaking new ground...After this success, in 1961 Sanger moved to the MRC Laboratory...Internet Resource "About Frederick Sanger." Wellcome Trust...
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DNA sequencing
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...bands in each of the four lanes in the gel. The Sanger method (named after Frederick Sanger ), also called the dideoxy method, involves...and autoradiography. A big advantage of the Sanger method is that it can easily be adapted to sequencing...
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Milstein, César (1927-2002)
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
...from 1958 to 1961 under the guidance of Frederick Sanger, a distinguished researcher in the field of enzymes . Sanger had determined that an enzyme's functions...In 1963, he returned to work with Sanger in Great Britain. During the 1960s...
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