Frederick Sanger is the only person with 2 Chemistry Nobels

Late British biochemist Frederick Sanger remains the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He received the award in 1958 and 1980 for his work on the structure of proteins and nucleic acids respectively. The Cambridge Professor was the fourth and last person to win the Nobel twice; after Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, and John Bardeen.