Seymour Benzer. 15 October 1921 — 30 November 2007
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Seymour Benzer (1921–2007)
The style of scientific giants differs at least as much as their interests. Seymour Benzer, who died in Pasadena on Novem-ber 30, 2007, at the age of 86, was made of the stuff of the great restless explorers. But unlike the Cooks and Magellans, he never waited for a monarch's approval to sail, nor did he claim sovereignty over the new territory. With admirable drive, curiosity , and tenacity, h...
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It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...
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Biology lost one of its greats with the death on November 30th last year of Seymour Benzer. In the century that began with the rediscovery of Mendelian units of heredity and ended with the sequencing of the human genome, Benzer’s studies of gene fine structure defined the pivotal moment in the transition from classical to molecular genetics. This quiet devoté of science, with an impish sense of...
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NOVEMBER 2007 was marked by the loss of Seymour Benzer, long considered the father of the field of neurogenetics. Benzer’s scientific contributions are broad and span from physics (his Ph.D. training) to molecular biology (defining the linearity of the gene) to behavioral genetics (establishing the field). Benzer’s unswerving devotion to science led him to continue running a vibrant laboratory ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0080-4606,1748-8494
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2012.0031