BIOLOGIST

Sydney Brenner

1927 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sydney Brenner is the 131st most popular biologist (down from 119th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Biologist. Learn more about Sydney Brenner's academic impact at Rankless.

Sydney Brenner is most famous for his work in molecular biology. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002, along with Francis Crick and James Watson, for their work in discovering the structure of DNA.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sydney Brenner ranks 131 out of 1,097. Before him are Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Hamilton O. Smith, Sam Harris, and Reginald Innes Pocock. After him are John Franklin Enders, Jan Swammerdam, William Jackson Hooker, Lynn Margulis, Gaspard Bauhin, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Sydney Brenner ranks 47. Before him are Emmanuelle Riva, Raúl Alfonsín, Harry Mulisch, Juliette Gréco, Roy Cohn, and Robert Ludlum. After him are William Perry, Hugo Pratt, Geneviève Page, George O. Abell, Alan MacDiarmid, and Romano Mussolini. Among people deceased in 2019, Sydney Brenner ranks 48. Before him are Albert Finney, René Auberjonois, Ratko Janev, Li Peng, Lee Radziwill, and Marie Laforêt. After him are Andrea Camilleri, Giya Kancheli, Roger Etchegaray, John Tate, John Robert Schrieffer, and Ágnes Heller.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Sydney Brenner ranks 24 out of 454. Before him are Thabo Mbeki (1942), C. R. Swart (1894), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Jacob Zuma (1942), and J. G. Strijdom (1893). After him are Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Paul Kruger (1825), Jody Scheckter (1950), Steve Biko (1946), and Navi Pillay (1941).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Sydney Brenner ranks 3. Before him are Max Theiler (1899), and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761). After him are Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Louisa Bolus (1877), and Austin Stevens (1950).

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