Editing Frederick Sanger (section)

===Awards and honours===
{{As of|2015}}, Sanger is one of the only two people to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice (the other being [[Karl Barry Sharpless]] in 2001 and 2022'')'', and one of only five two-time Nobel laureates: The other four were [[Marie Curie]] ([[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]], 1903 and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], 1911), [[Linus Pauling]] ([[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], 1954 and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]], 1962), [[John Bardeen]] (twice [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]], 1956 and 1972), and [[Karl Barry Sharpless]] (twice [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], 2001 and 2022).<ref name=nobelfacts/>

* Elected [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1954|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1954]]<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) – 1963<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] (CH) – 1981<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Member of the Order of Merit]] (OM) – 1986<ref name=rsbm/>
* Corresponding Member of the [[Australian Academy of Science]] – 1982<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[William Bate Hardy Prize]] – 1976<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] – 1958, 1980<ref name=nobel1958/><ref name=nobel1980/>
* [[Corday–Morgan Medal]] – 1951<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Royal Medal]] – 1969<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Gairdner Foundation International Award]] – 1971<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Copley Medal]] – 1977<ref name=rsbm/>
* G.W. Wheland Award – 1978<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] of [[Columbia University]] – 1979<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] – 1979<ref name=rsbm/>
* [[Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities]] Award – 1994<ref>{{Cite web | title=The ABRF Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies | publisher=Association of Biomolecular Resource facilities | url=https://abrf.org/awards/abrf-award-outstanding-contributions-biomolecular-technologies | access-date=11 August 2020 | archive-date=6 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806131051/https://abrf.org/awards/abrf-award-outstanding-contributions-biomolecular-technologies | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] – 2000<ref>{{Cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=  https://www.achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Summit Overview Photo| url=  https://achievement.org/summit/|quote= Awards Council member and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Charles H. Townes presenting the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to British biochemist Dr. Frederick Sanger, recipient of two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, at the 2000 Summit in Hampton Court.}}</ref>
* Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award from the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society – 2016<ref name="Award">{{Cite web|title=2016 Awardees|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/CCB-2016_Awardees.php|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2016|access-date=14 June 2017|archive-date=6 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506160732/http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/CCB-2016_Awardees.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Breakthrough">{{Cite web|title=Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/Citations/2016-ACS%20Rendering_Sanger.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506173200/http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/Citations/2016-ACS%20Rendering_Sanger.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 May 2017|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2016|access-date=14 June 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|Sanger|Nicklen|Coulson|1977}}

The [[Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute]] (formerly the ''Sanger Centre'') is named in his honour.<ref name=rsbm/>