Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner
Brenner in 2008
Born	(1927-01-13)13 January 1927 Germiston, Gauteng, Union of South Africa
Died	5 April 2019(2019-04-05) (aged 92) Singapore
Nationality	South African
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral fellow [1]
Known for	Genetic code, Caenorhabditis elegans, Apoptosis
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Molecular Sciences Institute King's College, Cambridge

Sydney Brenner CH FRS (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with Robert Horvitz and John Sulston. He was of Jewish descent.^[2]

Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology.^[3]

He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology. He founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California.^[3]

1. ↑ "Sydney Brenner".
2. ↑ Nobelprize.org
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Sydney Brenner | South African-born biologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-21.