Bertney Brenner: A Brief Biography

ydney Brenner was born in January 13, 1927 in Germiston, South Africa. Brenner’s parents were Jewish immigrants. His father was a shoe repairer and they lived in rooms that were at the back of his father’s store. Brenner started to read at a young age. One of his father’s customers, Miss Walkinshaw, encouraged Brenner’s father to allow Brenner to go to her kindergarten without charge. Brenner finished three years of primary school in one year and enrolled to local school when he was six. After four years, he attended Germiston High School. He became immersed in chemistry, and in order to do experiments, he collected test tubes and other glassware and used small chemicals from a pharmacy supply house.
At the age of fifteen, he attended the Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand and studied medicine . After moving on to medical school, Brenner started the courses Anatomy and Physiology. During this time, he began to be interested in cells …show more content…
Brenner was responsible for basic principles of how DNA instructs cells to make proteins and he was the first to sequence the genome of a whole multi-cell living being (the worm C. Elegans), work that set the stage for comprehension the field of cell death, which is basic to our comprehension of numerous diseases. In the 1960s, Brenner established the existence of mRNA and received his first Lasker Award and a second Lasker Award in 2000. Brenner has gotten many awards, such as the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Krebs Medal, the Croonian Medal, the Harvey Prize, the Waterford Biomedical Science Award, the Kyoto Prize, the King Faisal International Prize for Science, and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for distinguished achievement in the Neuroscience Research. Brenner is part of the Royal Society of London, in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he is a foreign associate, and is an professor of biology at the University of California, San