48 moments

1. Birth in Germiston

   1927-01-13 · Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa

   Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, then in Transvaal, South Africa.

2. Enrolment at the University of the Witwatersrand

   1942-01-01 · University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

   At age 15, Brenner enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, beginning the education that led to his scientific career.

3. Doctoral study at Oxford

   1952-01-01 · University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

   Brenner moved to Oxford to undertake doctoral research in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory under Cyril Hinshelwood.

4. Visit to the DNA model

   1953-04-01 · University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

   While working in Oxford, Brenner travelled with colleagues to Cambridge to see the Watson–Crick DNA model. The source dates the visit only to April 1953; Cambridge is represented by the city centre because the precise viewing site is not stated.

5. Physiology lecturer at Witwatersrand

   1954-01-01 · University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

   Brenner returned to South Africa and became a lecturer in physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand. The appointment continued through 1956.

6. Postdoctoral work in Berkeley

   1954-01-01 · University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

   After completing his DPhil, Brenner undertook postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. The curriculum vitae dates his work at the University of California Virus Laboratory to 1954.

7. Joined the MRC molecular-biology unit

   1956-01-01 · MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

   

   Brenner returned to Britain and joined the MRC unit that became the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Coordinate represents the historic Hills Road Cambridge biomedical area; the source identifies Cambridge rather than a street address.

8. Carter-Wallace Lectures

   1966-01-01 · Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

   Brenner gave the Carter-Wallace Lectures at Princeton University. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

9. Jean Weigle Memorial Lecture

   1970-01-01 · California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

   Brenner gave the Jean Weigle Memorial Lecture at the California Institute of Technology. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

10. Mike Hogg Lecture

    1973-01-01 · Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States

    Brenner gave the Annual Mike Hogg Lecture at the University of Texas Medical Center. The curriculum vitae does not state a more precise venue than the University of Texas Medical Center.

11. Karl August Foster Lecture

    1974-01-01 · Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

    Brenner delivered the Karl August Foster Lecture in Mainz. The source provides only the city and year.

12. Herbert Spencer Lecture

    1976-01-01 · University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

    Brenner gave the Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

13. Lectures at UC Berkeley

    1976-01-01 · University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

    Brenner gave the Smith, Kline and French Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

14. Steenbock Lectures

    1976-01-01 · University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

    Brenner gave the Steenbock Lectures at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

15. Return for Carter-Wallace Lectures

    1977-01-01 · Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

    Brenner returned to Princeton University for the Carter-Wallace Lectures. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

16. Gifford Lectures

    1978-01-01 · University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Brenner began the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow; the lecture series ran from 1978 to 1980. The card uses the first year of the source's 1978–80 range.

17. Ballard Mathews Lecture

    1979-01-01 · Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

    Brenner gave the Ballard Mathews Lecture at University College of North Wales. Bangor is used as the representative settlement for the institution named in the source.

18. Korner Lecture

    1979-01-01 · University of Sussex, Falmer, England, United Kingdom

    Brenner gave the Korner Lecture at the University of Sussex. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

19. Albert Einstein Lecture

    1980-01-01 · New York Academy of Sciences, New York City, New York, United States

    Brenner gave the Albert Einstein Lecture at the New York Academy of Sciences. The curriculum vitae uses the abbreviated institutional name and gives year-level precision.

20. Archibald Garrod Lecture

    1980-01-01 · University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

    Brenner gave the Archibald Garrod Lecture at Oxford. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

21. Jean Weigle Lecture

    1980-01-01 · Geneva, Switzerland

    Brenner gave the Jean Weigle Lecture in Geneva. The source identifies the University of Geneva; the coordinate is a representative point for Geneva.

22. Lectures at UC San Francisco

    1981-01-01 · University of California, San Francisco, California, United States

    Brenner gave the Smith, Kline and French Lectures at the University of California, San Francisco. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

23. Dreyfuss Foundation Lectures

    1982-01-01 · Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States

    Brenner gave the Dreyfuss Foundation Lectures at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The present-day institution name is used for recognizability.

24. Ida Beam Visiting Professorship

    1982-01-01 · University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States

    Brenner served as Ida Beam Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa. The curriculum vitae gives Iowa rather than a city; Iowa City is the university's main campus.

25. Jacques Monod Memorial Lecture

    1983-01-01 · Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

    Brenner gave the Jacques Monod Memorial Lecture at the Pasteur Institute. Paris is used because the source identifies the Pasteur Institute but not the city.

26. Verna and Marrs McLean Lecture

    1984-01-01 · Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States

    Brenner gave the Verna and Marrs McLean Lecture at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

27. Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor

    1985-01-01 · Singapore

    Brenner was a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor in Singapore, an early documented scientific visit to the country. The curriculum vitae identifies Singapore but no specific host venue.

28. Director of the Molecular Genetics Unit

    1986-01-01 · MRC Molecular Genetics Unit, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

    After leaving the LMB, Brenner established and directed the MRC Molecular Genetics Unit in Cambridge. The source identifies Cambridge but not a street address; the coordinate represents Cambridge.

29. Anders Retzius Lecture

    1987-01-01 · Medical Nobel Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Brenner gave the Anders Retzius Lecture at the Medical Nobel Institute in Stockholm. The coordinate represents Stockholm because the source does not provide a building address.

30. Procter and Gamble Lecture

    1987-01-01 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Brenner gave the Procter and Gamble Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The source spells the lecture name “Proctor and Gamble” and gives year-level precision.

31. Forbes Lecture

    1988-01-01 · Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States

    Brenner gave the Forbes Lecture at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

32. Streisinger Lecture

    1989-01-01 · University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States

    Brenner gave the Streisinger Lecture at the University of Oregon. Eugene is used as the university's principal location.

33. Adriano Buzzati Traverso Lecture

    1990-01-01 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

    Brenner gave the Adriano Buzzati Traverso Lecture in Rome. The source provides city-level location and year-level date precision.

34. Samuel Rudin Visiting Professorship

    1991-01-01 · Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, New York, United States

    Brenner began a Samuel Rudin Visiting Professorship at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The card uses the first year of the source's 1991–92 range.

35. Wellcome Visiting Professorship

    1991-01-01 · Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Brenner was Wellcome Visiting Professor at Boston University Medical Center. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

36. Farr Lecture

    1992-01-01 · Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

    Brenner gave the Fifth Annual Farr Lecture at Yale University School of Clinical Medicine. The present-day school name is used for recognizability.

37. Pittsburgh Conference Lecture

    1993-01-01 · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Brenner gave the Pittsburgh Conference Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

38. Berlin Lecture on Molecular Medicine

    1994-01-01 · Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

    Brenner gave the Third Berlin Lecture on Molecular Medicine at the Max Delbrück Center. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

39. F. A. Bourke Lecture

    1995-01-01 · Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Brenner gave the F. A. Bourke Lecture at Boston University. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

40. BASF-Lynx Lecture

    1996-01-01 · Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Brenner gave the BASF-Lynx Lecture at Heidelberg University. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

41. Erasmus Lecture

    1996-01-01 · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

    Brenner gave the Erasmus Lecture at Rotterdam University. The source uses “Rotterdam University”; Rotterdam is used as the representative location.

42. Visit to the National Orchid Garden

    1997-01-01 · National Orchid Garden, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore

    Brenner visited Singapore's National Orchid Garden; a dendrobium was named for him on the occasion of that visit the following year. The source establishes 1997 by saying the 1998 naming followed his visit in the prior year.

43. Kuffler Lectures

    2000-01-01 · University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

    Brenner gave the Stephen W. Kuffler Lectures at the University of California, San Diego. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

44. Mendel Lecture

    2000-01-01 · Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Brenner gave the Mendel Lecture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. The coordinate represents Vienna because the source does not state a building address.

45. Shirley Boyde Memorial Lecture

    2001-01-01 · University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Brenner gave the Shirley Boyde Memorial Lecture at the University of Hong Kong. The source is Brenner's curriculum vitae and supplies year-level date precision.

46. Hans L. Falk Memorial Lecture

    2002-01-01 · National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States

    Brenner gave the Hans L. Falk Memorial Lecture at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina. The coordinate represents the NIEHS campus in Research Triangle Park; the curriculum vitae gives only North Carolina.

47. 10-on-10 opening lecture

    2017-02-21 · Discovery Theatrette, Matrix Building, Biopolis, Singapore

    Brenner gave the opening listed lecture, “Why We Need to Talk about Evolution,” in the 10-on-10 series at Biopolis. The event page identifies the series venue as Discovery Theatrette, Level 4, Matrix Building at Biopolis, 30 Biopolis Street, Singapore.

48. Death in Singapore

    2019-04-05 · Singapore

    Brenner died in Singapore at age 92. The precise facility of death is not identified in the source; coordinate represents Singapore.