Who is the only scientist in the world to have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. Frederick Sanger
1. Frederick Sanger is the only scientist in the world to have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
2. In 1958, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin". In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".
3. Two laureates who have been awarded twice but not in the same field are:
a. Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry)
b. Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace)