1992 -Professor Sydney Brenner-

Professor Sydney Brenner

King Faisal Prize in Science 1992 Laureate

Topic: "Biology"

The direct study of genes and genomes is a new science and differs from experimental physics, which I named genomy and, like astronomy, it relies largely on observation and measurement

Nationality: United Kingdom
Born: 13/1/1927, Germiston, Republic of South Africa
Professor Sydney Brenner was awarded the prize for his two fundamental discoveries that complete the work of Crick and Watson. He established that the molecules carrying the hereditary message, called DNA, encode the information they contain in a cipher using four “letters” of the genetic “alphabet”. Each single piece of information is represented by a particular combination of three of these “letters”. This is what is referred to as the triplet codon. Dr. Brenner then discovered how this information, stored in DNA, is duplicated, without prejudice to the original, and carried to the part of the cell where it is used to manufacture the proteins encoded.
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