SYDNEY BRENNER

April 8, 2019

Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm sparked a new field of human disease research, died at the age of 92.

About:

Sydney Brenner (1927 – 2019) was a South African biologist.
He 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.
He shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bob Horvitz and John Sulston.

Source : The Hindu

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