Sydney Brenner Scientist

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 H. Robert 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 Unit 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..

Personal facts

Birth date	January 13, 1927
Birth place	Gauteng , South Africa , Germiston
Nationality	South Africa
Education	University of the Witwatersrand University of California Berkeley University of Oxford
Known for	Apoptosis Caenorhabditis elegans