Sanger (redirected from Sanger, Margaret (Higgins))

Sang·er (sngr), Frederick Born 1918.

British biochemist. He won a 1958 Nobel Prize for determining the order of amino acids in the insulin molecule and shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing methods for mapping DNA structure and function.

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Sanger, Margaret Higgins 1883-1966.

American nurse who campaigned widely for birth control and founded (1929) the organization that became the Planned Parenthood Federation (1942).

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Sanger [sang´er]

Margaret H. (1883–1966). Founder of the American birth control movement. Her early practice among poor families in New York City led her to recognize the relationship between overpopulation, high infant and maternal mortality, and poverty. As a result she began publishing information on contraception and opened the nation's first birth control clinic.