1994 BECKMAN-ABRF AWARD Image missing Presentation of the 1994 Beckman-ABRF Award to Dr. Frederick Sanger (center) by Gregory A. Grant, (left) President of the ABRF and James C. Osborne, (right) Vice President Advanced Development Unit, Beckman Instruments, Inc. (Photograph compliments of Ron Niece) In the 1970's Dr. Sanger developed a method for sequencing DNA and in 1977 the method was perfected and Sanger dideoxy sequencing is now the standard procedure not only for molecular biologists but also for protein chemists employing site directed mutagenesis to modify proteins. And of course, it brought the second Nobel Prize. Along the way, he also demonstrated the existence of overlapping genes and discovered, along with his colleague Kjeld Marcker, the initiator formyl-methionyl tRNA. In making their decision, the Beckman-ABRF Award Committee stated, "Frederick Sanger has made fundamental contributions to both protein sequencing and DNA sequencing - two fields of great importance to the ABRF membership. Moreover, he has been a trend setter for methods development in both areas. He is a "scientist's" scientist who has brought legitimacy to the development of new technologies as a scientific discipline". Return to the The ABRF Home Page Created: 5th August 1995 Last modified: 5th August 1995 | |
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