jan 1, 1977 - Frederick Sanger discovers how DNA is sequenced, through his work on the structure/sequence of proteins and RNA.
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In 1958, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin". In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".
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