When he passed away in 2013, Frederick Sanger left behind a legacy, one of only four people with two Nobel Prizes. What discipline earned this genius his two Nobels?

Sanger was a chemistry intellect, known for his contributions "concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids." In other words, Sanger's work involved the complex and critical sequencing of DNA and RNA, studies were fundamental to our understand of disease and eventual creation of specific vaccines.

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