Sydney Brenner was born in South Africa and educated at the
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Medicine and Science).
He then moved to Oxford and received a D.Phil in 1952, before
joining the MRC Unit in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in
1956. His various accomplishments include serving as the Director
of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, founding the
Molecular Science Institute in Berkeley, holding the position of
Distinguished Professor at the Salk Institute, La Jolla. And during
his last years, Sydney Brenner played a key role in shaping
research and development in the biomedical sector in Singapore as
A*Star Senior Fellow.He was one of the greatest biologists of the
20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his
pioneering work in the field of molecular biology. He was also
known for his boundless curiosity, sharp intellect and courage to
speak with clarity and characteristic wit as evident in this
delightful book which is a compilation of the columns that he wrote
for Current Biology in the late '90s.
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