Sydney Brenner - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2002
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Sydney Brenner

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2002
for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'
Citizenship
South Africa South Africa United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
1/13/1927
place of birth
Germiston
date of death
4/5/2019
place of death
Singapore
Lived
92 years
educated at
  • University of Oxford
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
  • King's College
  • Exeter College
  • University of the Witwatersrand
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1965
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1979
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1977
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1989
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 3/12/2007
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • French Academy of Sciences
occupation
  • biologist
  • geneticist
  • biotechnologist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • Gerald Mayer Rubin
  • Gerald M. Rubin
  • John G. White
employer
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Cambridge
field of work
  • biology
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