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Sydney Brenner

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Sydney Brenner

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Also known as S. Brenner, S Brenner

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

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Sydney Brenner (1927–2019) was a male scientist specializing in genetics and biology. He held nationalities in South Africa and Great Britain. His professional work included five publications, and he is recognized in collections associated with the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Nobel Laureates.

Brenner received one Nobel Prize, specifically in the field of Medicine. He is noted for the statement, "I think for the first time we can attack the fundamental biology of man." The scientist had three children and an Erdős number of 4.

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Person · Open Library

Works
18

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Country
DE
Active from
2018

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
18

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,822x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,936x

  3. THE GENETICS OF <i>CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS</i>

    · 1974 · cited 12,640x

  4. WebLogo: A Sequence Logo Generator: Figure 1

    · 2004 · cited 11,860x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,989x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
1927–2019
Nationality
ZA, GB
Role / Field
Scientist, Cientificos, Biologove, Biologos, Genetics, Biology
Language
eng
Gender
Male

Recorded by 23 libraries

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Quotes

  • “Current ideas of the uses of Model Organisms spring form the exemplars of the past and choosing the right organism for one's research is as important as finding the right problems to work on. In all my research these two problems have been closely intertwined.”
  • “Well, I think my skills are in getting things started. ... In fact, that's what I enjoy most — it's the opening game. And I'm afraid that once it gets past that point I get rather bored with it and want to do other things. ... The other thing I'm good at is talking.”
  • “I think for the first time we can attack the fundamental biology of man.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2002

    “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”

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Encyclopedic overview

Sydney Brenner (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.

Education and early life

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