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Sydney Brenner Collection
- Date
- 1927-2010
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Description
The Sydney Brenner Collection consists of over 300 manuscript boxes of materials documenting the life of Dr. Sydney Brenner, from his early years as a student in South Africa, to his work as a scientist and administrator at the Medical Research Council (MRC), to his role in the biotechnology industry in the United Kingdom. The collection also includes material that belonged to Francis Crick and Leslie Barnett; the two shared offices with Brenner at the MRC beginning in the 1950s (Crick left in the mid-1970s and Barnett in the 1990s).
Publication/Creation
1927-2010
Physical description
335 boxes
Copyright note
Please note that CSHL holds copyright in writings by Brenner that are held within Brenner's archive in the CSHL Library and Archives, but does not hold copyright in Brenner's writings held outside the CSHL Library and Archives. Copyright of material created by persons other than Brenner, published or unpublished, is retained by its original author or rightsholder.
Languages
- English
Subjects
- Chromosomes
- Awards and Prizes
- Biochemistry
- Biotechnology
- Congresses and conventions
- Cloning, Organism
- Discoveries in science
- DNA
- DNA, Recombinant
- Genetic Engineering
- Genetic Research
- Genome, Human
- Genetic Therapy
- Genetics
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Meiosis
- Neoplasms
- Nobel Prize
- Research
- Travel
- RNA
- Molecular Biology
- Models, Molecular
- Neurobiology
- Retroviridae
- Science
- Viruses
- Sequence Analysis
- Genetic Code
- Caenorhabditis Elegans
- Bacteriophages
- Chromosome Mapping
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