SANGER, FREDERICK

săngˈər, 1918–, British biochemist, grad. Cambridge Univ. (B.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1943). He continued his research at Cambridge after 1943. He won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies on insulin, accomplishing the first determination of the amino acid sequence (primary structure) of a protein of the insulin molecule. In 1980, he shared the Nobel Prize (with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert) for developing a method, important in recombinant DNA research, for rapidly determining the chemical structure of pieces of DNA.

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books on: Sanger Frederick  - 1378 results

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Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography
Book by Margaret Sanger; W. W. Norton, 1938
Subjects: Birth Control, Sanger, Margaret--1879-1966
MARGARET SANGER Margaret Sanger MARGARET SANGER An Autobiography NEW YORK W W NORTON COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1938, by W. W. NORTON COMPANY, INC. 70 Fifth Avenue, New York First Edition PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES...
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Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
Book by David M. Kennedy; Yale University Press, 1970
Subjects: Birth Control--Biography, Birth Control--United States--History, Sanger, Margaret--1879-1966
...the American Studies Program Margaret Sanger, about 1920. Courtesy of Smith College...IN AMERICA THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER David M. Kennedy New Haven and...John Kennedy Preface When Margaret Sanger died in September 1966, she was eulogized...
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The Language of Fiction
Book by Keith Sanger; Routledge, 1998
...Data Sanger, Keith, 1948- The language of fiction/Keith Sanger. p. cm. (Intertext) Includes bibliographical references...Copyright Jack Kerouac 1955, 1957. Reproduced by permission of Frederick Warne Co. Also reproduced by permission of Sterling Lord...
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Woman and the New Race
Book by Margaret Sanger; Truth Publishing, 1920
Subjects: Birth Control
...That is why the little book by Margaret Sanger, whose right to speak with authority...during the hours of employment. Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, director of the National...months after his death. "Now, Mrs. Sanger, I did not want those children, because...
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Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium
Book by Frederick Key Smith; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Music--Scandinavia--History And Criticism
...and folksongs, are Fredmans epistlar 1790 and Fredmans sanger 1791 . The bulk of songs in these volumes, arranged for voice...garnered verse, were the Danish poets Oehlenschlager, Nicolai Frederick Severin Grundtvig 1783 1872 , Bernhard Severin Ingemann 1789...
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journal articles on: Sanger Frederick  - 58 results

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Swaggering Savagery and the New Frontier [1]
Journal article; Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Vol. 16, 2007
Subjects: Antiterrorism measures--Evaluation, Bush doctrine--Analysis, Bush, George W.--Evaluation, Bush, George W.--Quotations, Slotkin, Richard--Quotations, Turner, Frederick Jackson--Quotations, United States--Military aspects
...considerable help in developing the piece. 2 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American...continent; in others, over the hemisphere" Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission in...jpg, (accessed August 2004). 43 David Sanger, "Bush Declares victory in War on Terror...
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Returns to Target Shareholders from Initial Purchases of Common Shares: A Multivariate Analysis
Journal article by Frederick C. Scherr, Ashok Abbott, Upinder Dillon; Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 32, 1993
Subjects: Rate of return--Analysis, Stocks--Finance
...Lee, and Marcus, 1984; Lamoureux and Sanger, 1989). When dummy variables are employed...to proxy for size. (See Lamoureux and Sanger, 1989.) Results are similar to those presented...Lamoureux, Christopher G., and Gary C. Sanger, "Firm Size and Turn-of-the-Year Effects...
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America's Censor: Anthony Comstock and Free Speech
Journal article by Craig L. Lamay; Communications and the Law, Vol. 19, 1997
Subjects: Censorship--History, Comstock, Anthony--Conduct of life, Obscenity (Law)--Laws, regulations, etc., Sex in literature--Analysis, United States history--1865-1921
...Leverson Acquitted, N.Y. Times, Mar. 25, 1896. (140.) Id. (141.) Comstock Not Wanted, N.Y. Times, Mar. 26, 1896. (142.) Frederick Lewis Allen, The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950, 85-97 (New York, NY: Harper Bros. 1950). (143.) Rebecca...
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Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s
Journal article by Andrea Tone; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1996
Subjects: Birth control--Economic aspects, Contraceptives industry--Marketing, Contraceptives--Social aspects, Women consumers--Social aspects
...Chesler, Women of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement...Toronto, 1992). 12. Christine Frederick, Selling Mrs. Consumer (New...justice." See Margaret H. Sanger, "Comstockery in America...from Lehn Fink to Margaret Sanger, 24 November 1931, reel 29...
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Federal Expansion, Fertility Control, and Physicians in the United States: the Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years
Journal article by Robyn L. Rosen; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10, 1998
Subjects: Women--History
...working toward federal reform. In 1924, Sanger first announced her support of a federal...of a groundbreaking ruling by Judge Frederick Crane of the New York State Court of...shift nor an autocratic decision made by Sanger. The rise of the specialties of obstetrics...
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magazine articles on: Sanger Frederick  - 15 results

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Thumbs Up for the Bright, White Folks: Eugenics Has a Loyal and Respectable Following in the US-Especially on the Right. Hywel Probert Reveals Some Surprising Links between Bush and Hitler
Magazine article by Hywel Probert; New Statesman, Vol. 131, April 15, 2002
Subjects: Eugenics--History, Sterilization, Eugenic--United States, United States history--Analysis, United States--Social policy
...out by the statements of Frederick Osborn. Osborn, a former...the feminist icon Margaret Sanger, the inspiration behind Planned Parenthood. Sanger called for the sterilisation...Pivot of Civilisation. The Sanger Institute, which has not...
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They Made America
Magazine article by Ross Douthat; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 298, December 2006
Subjects: Businesspeople--Investments, Businesspeople--Management, Entrepreneurs--Investments, Entrepreneurs--Management, Entrepreneurship--Investments, Entrepreneurship--Management
...regretful midwife of the nuclear era. 49 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED The genius behind New Yorks...Texas, and the Southwest. 51 MARGARET SANGER The ardent champion of birth control...Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. WALTER McDOUGALL Walter McDougall is...
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Teaching American History
Magazine article by William Cronon; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Winter 1998
Subjects: Historians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United States history--Study and teaching
...and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms. Frederick Douglass, Eugene V. Debs, and Margaret Sanger - the kind of individuals whose highlighting...generalizations in need of revision: * Frederick Jackson Turners argument that the frontier...
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Breaking the Last Taboo
Magazine article by James A. Haught; Free Inquiry, Vol. 17, Winter 1996
Subjects: Agnosticism--Social aspects
...Voltaire wrote, in a letter to Frederick the Great: Christianity is...that the motto of Margaret Sangers birth-control newsletter was...Marshall. Voltaire - letter to Frederick the Great, quoted in the Encyclopedia...Books, 1985, p. 715. Margaret Sanger - masthead of her newsletter...
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Faster, Cheaper, Better: Easier Genetic Sequencing Could Make Personalized Medicine a Reality
Magazine article by Christen Brownlee; Science News, Vol. 171, April 14, 2007
Subjects: Nucleotide sequencing--Research
...3 decades. That method, created in the mid-1970s by Frederick Sanger of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England...Some of these strategies miniaturize and streamline the Sanger process. Others take different routes to a persons genetic...
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newspaper articles on: Sanger Frederick  - 9 results

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Packard Show Set in Frederick, Md
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 4, 2007
...at 410/721-7819. All-brands cruise-in planned for May 20 The Frederick County Corvette Club will host a cruise-in for all vehicle...are thrilled to be offering this seductive car," Christopher Sanger, Head of Christies Car Sales in the Americas said in a prepared...
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Survey Finds Area Libraries Tilting Left
Newspaper article by Jessica Smith; The Washington Times, July 25, 2000
...the District and Montgomery, Frederick, Arlington County systems veered...Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The book, "Killer Angel...owned 12 biographies of Mrs. Sanger, library spokesman David Noel...Columbia and Fairfax, Arlington, Frederick, Montgomery and Prince Georges...
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University of Birmingham Degrees
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 17, 2009
Subjects: Universities and colleges
...Christopher James Riley ; Kathryn Mary Roche (Class I); Nor Shafiqah Rozian (Class I); Jamie Ian Sandells (Class I); Jaspal Singh Sanger (Class I); Samuel James Scouller ; Kathryn Alexandra Scullion ; Matthew Adam Sharkey ; Adam Slack ; Rebecca Sally Smith ; Jennifer...
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Elmira: A Prison of Horror for Confederates
Newspaper article by Martha Boltz; The Washington Times, March 4, 2000
...held the last Sunday of each month through April from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The museum is located at 100 Adventist Drive in Frederick. Call 301/695-1864 for more information. March 19: Park Service historian Ted Alexander will discuss "Not a Sight Becoming...
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White House Event Has Friendly Air
Newspaper article by Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, April 9, 1999
...White House correspondent, the New York Times, and David E. Sanger, Washington economic correspondent, the New York Times Gen...of Staff, and his wife, Carolyn Bright Sheng, composer Frederick W. Smith, chairman and CEO, FDX Corp., and his wife, Diane...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sanger Frederick  - 4 results

 
 
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Sanger, Frederick
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SANGER, FREDERICK sang r, 1918 , British biochemist, grad. Cambridge (B.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1943). He continued his research at Cambridge after...
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Berg, Paul
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Washington Univ. at St. Louis and Stanford Univ., he shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger ) for his work with recombinant DNA. Berg developed techniques for attaching selected parts of DNA molecules to...
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Gilbert, Walter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...genetic material in the laboratory. For his role in this work, he shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frederick Sanger and Paul Berg . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bovet Albert Camus 1958 Georges Henri Pire Frederick Sanger P. A. Cherenkov Igor Y. Tamm Ilya M. Frank Joshua...Adolfo Perez Esquivel Paul Berg Walter Gilbert Frederick Sanger James W. Cronin Val L. Fitch Baruj Benacerraf George...


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