1927– British scientist who played a major role in the development of molecular genetics and established a major new field of research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
Keywords: DNA; genetics; Caenorhabditis elegans
Brenner, Sydney
JA Witkowski, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Published online: June 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003570
| Further Reading | |
| Brenner S (1957) On the impossibility of all overlapping triplet codes in information transfer from nucleic acid to proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 43: 687–694. | |
| book Brenner S (1997) Sydney Brenner: A Life in Science told to Lewis Wolpert. London: Science Archive. | |
| book Brenner S (1997) Loose Ends. London: Current Biology. | |
| Brenner S, Jacob F and Meselson M (1961) An unstable intermediate carrying information from genes to ribosomes for protein synthesis. Nature 190: 576–581. | |
| Brenner S, Stretton AOW and Kaplan S (1965) Genetic code: the nonsense triplets for chain termination and their suppression. Nature 206: 994–998. | |
| Crick FHC, Barnett L, Brenner S and Watts-Tobias RJ (1961) General nature of the genetic code for proteins. Nature 192: 1227–1232. | |
| book Judson HF (1996) The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, expanded edn. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. | |
