Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner

CH FRS FMedSci MAE
Sydney Brenner; CH FRS FMedSci MAE
	Brenner in 2008
Born	13 January 1927; Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa
Died	5 April 2019 (aged 92); Singapore
Other names	Uncle Syd
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand (MSc, MBBCh); University of Oxford (DPhil);
Known for	Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans
Spouse	May Covitz (m. 1952; died 2010)
Children	3
Awards	EMBO Membership (1964); William Bate Hardy Prize (1969); Mendel Medal (1970); Albert Lasker Medical Research Award (1971); Royal Medal (1974); Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1977); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1978); Krebs Medal (1980); Rosenstiel Award (1986); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1987); Harvey Prize (1987); Genetics Society of America Medal (1987); Kyoto Prize (1990); Copley Medal (1991); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1991); King Faisal International Prize in Medicine (1992); Max Delbrück Medal (1994); Novartis-Drew Award (2001); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002); Dan David Prize (2002);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	University of the Witwatersrand; University of Cambridge; University of California, Berkeley; Molecular Sciences Institute; Scripps Research Institute; Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology;
Thesis	The physical chemistry of cell processes: a study of bacteriophage resistance in Escherichia coli, strain B (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Cyril Hinshelwood
Doctoral students	Gerald M. Rubin; John G. White;
Website	salk.edu/faculty/brenner.html

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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