Frederick Sanger was born in Rendcombe, Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom on August 13, 1918. He received his education at Bryanston School. In 1939, he also received a B.A. degree in natural sciences. He married Margaret Joan Howe and had two sons and one daughter in the 1940’s. Sanger worked extensively with Dr. A. Neuberger in the 40’s as well. They researched the metabolism of the amino acid lysine. In 1951, Sanger had been appointed as a member of the External Staff of the Medical Research Council. Sanger then went on to become the Head of the Division of Protein Chemistry in the M.R.C. Laboratory for Molecular Biology at Cambridge. After that. Sanger had mostly worked on the structure of proteins. Sanger received many awards in
