Sydney Brenner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1927
Place of Birth: Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa
Date of Death: 05-Apr-2019
Profession: biotechnologist, university teacher, geneticist
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About 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.
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