Sydney Brenner was born on 13 January 1927 in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa. He was married to May Covitz Balkind. He died on 5 April 2019 in Singapore.
I'm a strong believer that ignorance is important in science. If you know too much, you start seeing why things won't work. That's why it's important to change your field to collect more ignorance.
