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    Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci MAE (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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  • The Crick, Brenner et al. experiment (1961) was a scientific experiment performed by Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, Leslie Barnett and R.J. Watts-Tobin...
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    Science from 1951 to 1953. In an interview conducted by Errol Friedberg, Sydney Brenner said: I think like most children, I got interested in nature very early...
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    near San Diego, California; guest speakers included James Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland...
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    Males have specialised tails for mating that include spicules. In 1963, Sydney Brenner proposed research into C. elegans, primarily in the area of neuronal...
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    protein-manufacturing machinery. The concept of mRNA was developed by Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick in 1960 during a conversation with François Jacob...
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  • being adopted by Sydney Brenner in 1963 as a model organism for the study of developmental biology using genetics. In 1974, Brenner published the results...
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    theory, complex systems, and artificial life. Indeed, Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner considered Von Neumann's work on self-reproducing automata (together...
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  • 1923 Michael Levitt*, Chemistry, 2013 J. M. Coetzee, Literature, 2003 Sydney Brenner*, Physiology or Medicine, 2002 F. W. de Klerk, Peace, 1993 Nelson Mandela...
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    caused by a single amino acid change in the hemoglobin molecule and Sydney Brenner joined the Unit. In 1958, Crick's review "On Protein Synthesis" appeared:...
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