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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 15 quotes by Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner, CH FRS FMedSci (born 13 January 1927) is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council Unit in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the... Read full biography of Sydney Brenner → 1 2 Ctrl → Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. 0 I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying... → 0 In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in... → 0 There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. 0 The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. 0 I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small... → 0 During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an... → 0 I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year... → 0 Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in... → 0 The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology... → 0 He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of... → 0 I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we... → 0 I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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