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Sydney Brenner

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Sydney Brenner 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.

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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1927-01-13 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2019-04-05 1
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H. Robert Horvitz, Scientists

Shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death; Brenner's own lead states only the shared prize, no separate joint project named with Horvitz specifically.

Additional Source Sydney Brenner (Wikipedia)Lead section, Sydney Brenner
John Sulston, Scientists

Shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death; Brenner's own lead states only the shared prize, no separate joint project named with Sulston specifically.

Additional Source Sydney Brenner (Wikipedia)Lead section, Sydney Brenner
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  • Lead section (Wikipedia plaintext extract)
    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.
  • Infobox, Born
    13 January 1927
  • Infobox, Died
    5 April 2019
  • Associated With: H. Robert Horvitz, Lead section, Sydney Brenner
    In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.
  • Associated With: John Sulston, Lead section, Sydney Brenner
    In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.
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