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- NAME: Sydney Brenner
- OCCUPATION: Biologist
- BIRTH DATE: January 13, 1927 (Age: 86)
- EDUCATION: University of California, Berkeley, Molecular Sciences Institute, King's College, Cambridge
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa
- Full Name: Sydney Brenner, CH FRS
- ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn
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Sydney Brenner is a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and a science writer.
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Sydney Brenner was born on January 13, 1927 in Germiston, South Africa. After receiving his Doctorate of Philosophy from Exeter College, he worked for twenty-five years at the Medical Research Council Unit in Cambridge. Brenner's many contributions to molecular biology led to his being co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
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