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Sydney Brenner
Full Name of the recipient | Sydney Brenner |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 2002 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | H. Robert Horvitz (33.3%) John E. Sulston (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death' |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA |
Place of Birth | Germiston, South Africa ZAF |
Date of Birth | 13 January 1927 |
Age at the time of Award | 74 years |