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Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Germiston, GP, South Africa
Death: April 05, 2019 (92)
Singapore
Immediate Family:

Son of Morris Brenner and Leah (Lena) Brenner
Husband of Dr. May Woolf Balkind
Father of Private; Private and Private
Brother of Isaac (Joe) Brenner and Private

Occupation: Scientist
Managed by: Jonathan Paul Brenner Balkind
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About Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002

Sydney Brenner, CH FRS FMedSci (born 13 January 1927) is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston.

Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council Unit 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, U.S..

Obituary: New York Times, 6 April 2019

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Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002's Timeline

1927
January 13, 1927
Germiston, GP, South Africa
2019
April 5, 2019
Age 92
Singapore