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- Sanger, Frederick
Sanger, Frederick, 1918–, British biochemist, grad. Cambridge (B.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1943). He continued his research at Cambridge after 1943. He won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his stu...
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins
Sanger, Margaret Higgins, 1883–1966, American leader in the birth control movement, b. Corning, N.Y. Personal experience and work as a public-health nurse convinced her that family planning, e...
- Bellman, Carl Michael
Bellman, Carl Michael, 1740–95, Swedish poet; protégé of Gustavus III. His early poetry was chiefly religious. His dithyrambic odes in Fredmans Epistlar (1790) and Fredmans Sånger (1791) inclu...
- Berg, Paul
Berg, Paul, 1926–, American biologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Western Reserve Univ., 1952. A professor at Washington Univ. at St. Louis and Stanford Univ., he shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in P...
- Sulston, Sir John Edward
Sulston, Sir John Edward, 1942–, British molecular biologist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1966. He was staff scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, from 1969 to 1992,...
- Gilbert, Walter
Gilbert, Walter, 1932–, American molecular biologist, b. Boston, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1957. In 1968 he became a professor of biophysics at Harvard, where he had taught since 1959. He helped formul...
- birth control
Birth control, practice of contraception for the purpose of limiting reproduction. Male birth control methods include withdrawal of the male before ejaculation (the oldest contraceptive techni...
- Nobel Prizes (table)
Nobel PrizesYearPeaceChemistryPhysicsPhysiology or MedicineLiterature1901J. H. DunantFrédéric PassyJ. H. van't HoffW. C. RoentgenE. A. von BehringR. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme1902Élie DucommunC. A....
