Seymour benzer biography

Seymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.

Seymour Benzer was an American molecular biologist who developed () a method for determining the detailed structure of viral genes and.

Seymour Benzer (October 15, – November 30, ) was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.

Seymour Benzer was born in and grew up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. His parents emigrated from Warsaw, Poland and worked in the.

Seymour earned his PhD in physics, and did ground-breaking work on some of the first semiconductors before becoming a physics professor at Purdue.

Seymour Benzer (October 15, – November 30, ) was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist..

Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer with a Drosophila model, 1974
Born	(1921-10-15)October 15, 1921 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	November 30, 2007(2007-11-30) (aged 86) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Brooklyn College Purdue University
Known for	molecular and behavioral biology
Awards	Harvey Prize (1977) Wolf Prize in Medicine (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society^[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, molecular biology, behavioral genetics, chronobiology, neurogenetics
Institutions	Purdue University California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Photoelectric Effects in Germanium (1947)
Influences	Roger Wolcott Sperry, Max Delbrück, Salvador Luria, Alfred Sturtevant
Influenced	Richard Feynman, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner

Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an Americanphysicist, biologist and geneticist.

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