Awards & Winners

Seymour Benzer

Date of Birth 15-October-1921
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Seymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at Purdue University and as the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology.

Awards by Seymour Benzer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Seymour Benzer.

2004


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For pioneering discoveries that both founded and greatly advanced an entire field of neurogenetics, thereby transforming our understanding of the brain and its mechanisms.)

2001


NAS Award in the Neurosciences
(For his pioneering contributions which have brought neurogenetics to maturity. Benzer's discoveries in fruit flies have identified specific genes contributing to behaviors of central importance.)

2000


International Prize for Biology
(Developmental Biology)

1991


Wolf Prize in Medicine
(For having generated a new field of molecular neurogenetics by his pioneering research on the dissection of the nervous system and behavior by gene mutations.)

1982


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For elucidating the fine structure of the gene and unifying the classical and molecular concepts of gene structure and function.)

1971


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For their brilliant contribution to molecular genetics.)

1964


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the knowledge of genetics and molecular biology, and in particular for his elucidation of the fine structure of genes, which has made it possible to extend the limits of genetic resolution by relating genetic changes to chemical alterations in deoxyribonucleic acid, thus clarifying the chemical bases of heredity in determining the nature and properties of cells and viruses.)