Frederick Sanger, the British biochemist has passed away at 95. He won the Nobel Prize for two times during his lifetime. He was born in the year 1918 in Gloucestershire and in the beginning he wanted to follow the footsteps of his father in medicine.

Fellow researchers have portrayed him as one of the best scientists of any generation and also as a `real hero' of British science.

He is also called as `father of genomics'. He pursued a career in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is the only person in Britain who has won Nobel Prize and also is the only scientists who has been honored with Noble Prize two times for chemistry.

Dr. Sanger developed methods for finding out the structure of proteins.

As proteins constitute amino-acids, Dr. Sanger was successful in finding out the amino-acids and their order which is used to build the hormone insulin. Later, he switched over to DNA, its building blocks and bases.

He was honored with his second Nobel Prize in the year 1980 for developing `Sanger sequencing', a technique which is used till today.

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire is named after him to enhance understanding of the genome.