Sanger’s electrophoresis equipment
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LicenseChromatography tank, model 500 chromatank, by Shandon
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Chromatography tank, model 500 chromatank, by Shandon
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Chromatography tank, model 500 chromatank, by Shandon
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Chromatography tank, model 500 chromatank, by Shandon
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Chromatography tank, model 500 chromatank, converted for electrophoresis by Shandon Scientific Limited, England, 1950-1958
Frederick Sanger (b. 1918), a British biochemist, used this equipment to study the structure of insulin by electrophoresis in the 1950s. Electrophoresis sepa-rates different proteins in cells using an electrical current. Molecules move at different rates depending on their electrical charge, forming different bands on filter paper. Sanger won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1958 for determining the structure of insulin.
Details
- Category:
- Biochemistry
- Object Number:
- 1988-206
- Materials:
- glass, plastic, steel (metal) and metal (unknown)
- Measurements:
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overall: 630 mm x 630 mm x 250 mm,
- credit:
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
