Seymour Benzer, Ph.D.[Physics]
Seymour Benzer, Ph.D.[Physics]
National Medal of Science – Biological Sciences 1982
Name: Seymour Benzer
Birth: 15 October, 1921 New York City
Death: 30 November, 2007 Pasadena, CA
Institution: California Institute of Technology Pasadena,California USA
Award: “For elucidating the fine structure of the gene and unifying the classical and molecular concepts of gene structure and function.”
Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on May 24, 1983.
Age Awarded: 61
Education, Mentors: New Utrecht High School. Brooklyn College, physics & chemistry 1942. Ph.D. Physics, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1947. Ph.D. mentor physicist Karl Lark-Horowitz. Research mentor Max Delbruck, Medicine Nobelist, 1969.
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Seymour Benzer was a physicist. At Cold Spring Harbor, he took a summer course on phage by Max Delbruck. He gave up physics research for good. Max Delbruck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969.