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Noun: Sanger  sang-u(r)
  1. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)
    - Margaret Sanger, Margaret Higgins Sanger
     
  2. English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (1918-2013)
    - Frederick Sanger, Fred Sanger

Type of: biochemist, nurse, sister [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Sanger, Oregon

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