Cambridge academics recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours 2018
08 June 2018Leaders in fields from classics to Alzheimer’s research are recognised today in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Cambridge alumnus and former research associate awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017
04 October 2017Cambridge alumnus Richard Henderson (Corpus Christi College, 1966) has been jointly awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with former Cambridge University senior research associate Joachim Frank, and Jacques Dubochet from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dr Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)
20 November 2013Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the “father of genomics”, died in 2013 at the age of 95. The founding member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and the person after whom the Sanger Institute is named, he was known as an extremely modest and self-effacing man whose innumerable scientific contributions had an extraordinary impact on molecular biology.
