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Sydney Brenner
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complete name  Sydney Brenner
nobel prize  medicine
award year  2002
together with  John Sulston
together with  H. Robert Horvitz
prize share  Prize share: 1/3
rational  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 was awarded jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'."
biography  Biography
laureate facts  Facts
laureate lecture  Lecture
given name  Sydney
family name  Brenner
occupation  biotechnologist
occupation  university teacher
occupation  geneticist
field of work  biology
work location  University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
description  Sydney Brenner is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with Bob 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 (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, U.S..
image copyright  Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
image citation  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2002/summary/>
date birth  1927
usual name  Sydney Brenner