Person:Sydney Brenner (1)

Name^[1]	Sydney Brenner
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	13 Jan 1927	Germiston, South Africa
Other^[1]	Abt 1931	"When a customer at his father’s shop learned that Sydney, at age 4, could read English fluently but that his father could not afford to send him to school, the customer paid the boy’s tuition."
Education^[1]	Abt 1942	Johannesburg, South Africa"At 15, Sydney won a scholarship to study medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg."
Graduation^[1]	1951	Johannesburg, South AfricaMedical degree.
Marriage	1952	South Africato May Covitz
Education^[1]	Abt 1953	Oxford, EnglandOxford University; age 26.
Other^[1]	1971	Lasker Award in medical science.
Other^[1]	2001	Publication of autobiography "My Life in Science".
Other^[1]	Dec 2002	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Residence^[1]	Bef 2019	Singapore"He had lived and worked in Singapore in recent years...."
Death^[1]	5 Apr 2019	SingaporeAt the age of 92.

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Health

"British and Singaporean news organizations said that Dr. Brenner, a former heavy smoker, had been treated for lung disease in recent years."^{NYT Obit source}

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From Wikipedia

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Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology,^[1] and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States.

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