Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner (b.
1927 January 13 Germiston,
South Africa) is a British biologist active in the United States. He made seminal contributions to the emerging field of
molecular biology in the 1960s, notably in the elucidation of the triplet code of
protein translation. Brenner then turned his sights on establishing
Caenorhabditis elegans as a
model organism for the investigation of animal
development including
neural development. For the latter work he shared the
2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston.
Brenner founded the Molecular Sciences Institute and is currently associated with the Salk Institute. Known for his penetrating scientific insight and ascerbic wit, Brenner has for many years penned a regular column ("Loose Ends") in the journal Current Biology.
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