Sydney Brenner

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.

Awards: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Royal Medal, Harvey Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, Copley Medal, King Faisal Prize in Science, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, Max Delbrück Medal, Rosenstiel Award Education: Exeter College, University of the Witwatersrand, King's College, University of Oxford

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