Sydney Brenner
South African biologist
Died when: 92 years 82 days (1106 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci MAE (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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