BIOLOGIST

Sydney Brenner

1927 - 2019

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Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sydney Brenner has received more than 587,048 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Sydney Brenner is the 119th most popular biologist (down from 111th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Biologist.

Sydney Brenner is most famous for his work in molecular biology. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002, along with Francis Crick and James Watson, for their work in discovering the structure of DNA.

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  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sydney Brenner ranks 119 out of 1,097. Before him are Aimé Bonpland, Hans Christian Gram, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Carl Woese, Edward B. Lewis, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin. After him are Har Gobind Khorana, Macfarlane Burnet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Martinus Beijerinck, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Othenio Abel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Sydney Brenner ranks 49. Before him are Don Shirley, Harry Mulisch, Harry Markowitz, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, George Andrew Olah, and Maurice Ronet. After him are Stan Getz, F. Sherwood Rowland, Leszek Kołakowski, Mary Higgins Clark, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Alan MacDiarmid. Among people deceased in 2019, Sydney Brenner ranks 53. Before him are Li Peng, Prem Tinsulanonda, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Ágnes Heller, Fernando de la Rúa, and Ferdinand Piëch. After him are Moshe Arens, César Pelli, Demetris Christofias, Danny Aiello, Isabel Sarli, and Sigmund Jähn.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Sydney Brenner ranks 22 out of 454. Before him are Jacob Zuma (1942), Thabo Mbeki (1942), Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Jody Scheckter (1950), and Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924). After him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Steve Biko (1946), Glynis Johns (1923), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), and Basil Rathbone (1892).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Sydney Brenner ranks 2. Before him are Max Theiler (1899). After him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Louisa Bolus (1877), and Austin Stevens (1950).

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