Sydney Brenner Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Sydney Brenner, British biologist/geneticist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was born in Germiston, South Africa in 1927. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe; his father from Lithuania, and his mother from Latvia. Sydney’s father was a cobbler (a vocation he would have throughout his entire life) and
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Gallery 21: Letter from Sydney Brenner to Matt Meselson (2) :: CSHL DNA Learning Center
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Celebrating the Life and Science of Sydney Brenner - Ludmila Pollock - Sydney in his own words—Tracing a life through personal papers
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Sydney Brenner Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Sydney Brenner Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Sydney Brenner - Wikipedia
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Sydney Brenner – Facts
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Gallery Celebrating the Life & Science of Sydney Brenner at Cold Spring Harbor
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Celebrating the Life and Science of Sydney Brenner
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Sydney Brenner. 13 January 1927—5 April 2019 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Oral History Sydney Brenner
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Celebrating the Life and Science of Sydney Brenner 2022
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory celebrates re-opening of its historic Library
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Unprecedented access to the great minds who led the molecular biology revolution