Sydney Brenner
1927
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2019
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: South Africa, United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: biotechnologist, geneticist, university teacher, biologist
award received: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Copley Medal, Royal medal, Harvey Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, King Faisal International Prize in Science, March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, Max Delbrück Medal, Rosenstiel Award, Feldberg Foundation, William Bate Hardy Prize, Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research, Genetics Society of America Medal, Dan David Prize, Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, Sir Hans Krebs Medal, Croonian Lecture, Novartis Medal and Prize, honorary doctorate of the University of Porto, King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, John Innes Centre Haldane Lecture, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Gold Order of Mapungubwe, Baly Medal, Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry, honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University, Fellow of the Royal Society, Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Gregor Mendel Medal
influenced by: Frederick Sanger
Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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