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Sanger

san·ger

US/ˈsæŋə/ uncommon informal

noun

1.

English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

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2.

United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)

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Origin

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.

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