Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927-5 April 2019) was a South African biologist who, along with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston, was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on cell lineage in C. elegans nematodes.
Biography[]
Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, South Africa in 1927, the son of Jewish immigrant parents. He attended university at the age of 15, and he received his bachelor's degree in medicine in 1951. Brenner worked at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology for 20 years, and he joined the Salk Institute in California in 1976. He made significant contributions to the work on the genetic code and other areas of molecular biology while working at the Medical Research Council at Cambridge, and, in 2002, alongside H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on researching cell lineage in C. elegans nematodes. He died in Singapore in 2019 at the age of 92.