Sydney Brenner 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, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002, announced October 7, 2002. Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston, “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”. Sydney Brenner: born 1927, Germiston, South Africa. H. Robert Horvitz: born 1947, Chicago, IL, USA. John E. Sulston: born 1942, Fulmer, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).