Memorial service for Dr Fred Sanger available online

The memorial service for Dr Fred Sanger, two-time Nobel prize winner and Honorary Fellow of St John's, is now available to listen to online.

Dr Sanger, OM CH CBE FRS, died in Cambridge on 19 November 2013 at the age of 95. Following in the footsteps of his father and two uncles, he read Natural Sciences at St John's between 1936 and 1939, graduating with a First. He also did his doctoral studies at the College.

Dr Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice; once in 1958 for identifying the structure of insulin, and again in 1980 for developing a method for determining the nucelotide sequences in DNA. He was one of only four people in history to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person ever to win it twice for Chemistry. In 2010, Dr Sanger was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of St John's College.

His work and inspiration lives on in the Sanger Institute, founded by the Wellcome Trust and the MRC on the Genome Campus at Hinxton, just south of Cambridge, and the Sanger Building for the Department of Biochemistry.

His memorial service was held in the College Chapel on 8 November 2014. Choral Scholar Thomas Lilburn, who studies Natural Sciences at St John's, said: "It was a great privilege to sing at the memorial service for Fred Sanger, a man whose work is fundamental to so much of what I've studied here at Cambridge".

The Reflection for the service was given by Professor Christopher Howe. Professor Sir John Walker, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997, gave the Address.

Audio recordings of the memorial service can be listened to online HERE.