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| May 17 at 10:40 | comment | added | matt_black | @tomd Good point. Sanger also got a Nobel for his contributions. | |
| May 17 at 8:25 | comment | added | tomd | The work of Fred Sanger on the primary structure of insulin was surely more important in establishing that proteins are linear polymers of amino acids. The three-dimensional structure of insulin (by Dorothy Hodgkin and coworkers) came after Sanger's work. (The story goes that Sanger, invited to Oxford to view the structure, commented upon seeing the 3D model "At least we got the disulfides right") | |
| May 3 at 14:14 | history | answered | matt_black | CC BY-SA 4.0 |