Who was Seymour Benzer?
Q: Who was Seymour Benzer?
A: Seymour Benzer was an American physicist, biologist, and geneticist of Jewish descent.
Q: When did Seymour Benzer's career begin?
A: Seymour Benzer's career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s.
Q: In which two fields of genetics did Seymour Benzer make fundamental discoveries?
A: Seymour Benzer made fundamental discoveries in two quite different fields of genetics.
Q: Which book did Seymour Benzer read that led him to switch from solid-state physics to genetics?
A: Seymour Benzer read Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life? that led him to switch from solid-state physics to genetics.
Q: Where did Seymour Benzer lead a genetics research lab?
A: Seymour Benzer led a genetics research lab at Purdue University and at the California Institute of Technology.
Q: What was Seymour Benzer prominent in?
A: Seymour Benzer was prominent in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics.
Q: When was Seymour Benzer born and when did he die?
A: Seymour Benzer was born on October 15, 1921, and he died on November 30, 2007.
