Sydney Brenner

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Gender	Female
Death	5 years ago
Date of birth	January 13,1927
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Born	Germiston
	South Africa
Spouse(s)	May Brenner (née Covitz) (m. 1952–2010) (her death)
Job	Biologist
Books	New Horizons in Industrial Microbiology: A Discussion
	Theories of Biological Pattern Formation: A Discussion
	A Life in Science
	Complex Genetic Programmes
	In The Spirit Of Science: Lectures By Sydney Brenner On Dna, Worms And Brains
	Loose ends from current biology
Died	Singapore
Spous	May Covitz
Parents	Lena Brenner
	Morris Brenner
Date of died	April 5,2019
Education	University of Oxford
	University of California, Berkeley
Children	3
Known for	Genetics
	Caenorhabditis elegans
Date of Reg.	2019-02-14 23:38:52
Date of Upd.	2023-11-12 17:49:11
ID	418075

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Copley Medal
Gairdner Foundation International Award
Royal Medal
Kyoto Prize
King Faisal International Prize
Rosenstiel Award
Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Genetics Society of America Medal
Sir Hans Krebs Medal
Order of the Rising Sun
William Bate Hardy Prize
March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
Harvey Prize in Human Health
Dan David Prize in the Future Time Dimension
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Sydney Brenner Life story

Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci MAE 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.