Sydney Brenner: A Biography - Hardcover

Friedberg, Errol C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879699477 ISBN 13: 9780879699475

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2010

Synopsis

Over his long and inspiring career, the Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner has made some of the most significant and game-changing discoveries in the field of molecular biology. But Brenner's reach has extended well beyond his own research to inspire new generations of young scientists and to promote the development of science and biotechnology around the world. Based on his personal recollections, with contributions and correspondence from his close friends and colleagues, this book tells the lively story, not only of Brenner himself, but of what came to be known as the "golden age" of biology.

About the author: Errol C. Friedberg, M.D., is the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. A Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and recipient of the Rous Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Friedberg also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal DNA Repair. Friedberg is the author of Cancer Answers, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, The Writing Life of James D. Watson, and From Rags to Riches: The Phenomenal Rise of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is also senior author of the textbook DNA Repair & Mutagenesis, and has edited and annotated a series of interviews published as Sydney Brenner: My Life in Science.

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From the Back Cover

This volume is the first full-length biography of Sydney Brenner, the Nobel-Prize-winning scientist whose brilliant career has encompassed fundamental insights into the functions of RNA, the genetic code, and the principles of animal development, as well as leadership of research institutions in the USA, Singapore, and Japan. Known for his creativity, acerbic wit, and generosity to colleagues, and indefatigable even in his eighties, Brenner is one of the most influential scientists of our time.

About the Author

The book is written by Errol Friedberg, like Brenner both a scientist and a South African, the author of several previous histories and textbooks in molecular biology.

Errol C. Friedberg, M.D., is the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. A Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and recipient of the Rous Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Friedberg also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal DNA Repair. Friedberg is the author of Cancer Answers, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, The Writing Life of James D. Watson, and From Rags to Riches: The Phenomenal Rise of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is also senior author of the textbook DNA Repair & Mutagenesis, and has edited and annotated a series of interviews published as Sydney Brenner: My Life in Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0879699477
• ISBN 13: 9780879699475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 334