Sydney Brenner date of birth:
January 13, 1927
How old is Sydney Brenner?
99
Where was Sydney Brenner born?
Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa
Sydney Brenner body shape:
Average
What color are Sydney Brenner's eyes?
Blue
What color is Sydney Brenner's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Sydney Brenner gay or straight?
Straight
What religion is Sydney Brenner?
Atheist
What is Sydney Brenner's ethnicity?
White
What is Sydney Brenner nationality?
South African
What is Sydney Brenner's occupation?
Scientist
Short Biography
Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci (born 13 January 1927) 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..