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Sydney Brenner
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Sydney Brenner

1927 – 2019 · aged 92

South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 (1927–2019)

Born
13 Jan 1927 · Germiston
Died
5 Apr 2019 · Singapore
Part ofSouth Africa1838 – todayAtheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 13 Jan 1927BornBorn in Germiston
  2. 1968AwardWilliam Bate Hardy Prize
  3. 1970AwardGregor Mendel Medal
  4. 1970AwardMendel Medal
  5. 1971AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  6. 1974AwardRoyal Medal
  7. 1975AwardGrand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
  8. 1980AwardPortland Press Excellence in Science Award
  9. 1980AwardSir Hans Krebs Medal
  10. 1983AwardFeldberg Foundation Prize
  11. 1985AwardRosenstiel Award
  12. 1986AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
  13. 1987AwardHarvey Prize
  14. 5 Apr 2019DiedDied in Singapore

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1927 – 2019).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

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.

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