What is Seymour Benzer?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Seymour Benzer | image = Seymour Benzer.gif | image_size = | caption = Seymour Benzer with a ''[[Drosophila]]'' model, 1974 | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|10|15|mf=yes}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|11|30|1921|09|15|mf=yes}} | death_place = [[Pasadena, California]], U.S. | nationality = [[United States]] | field = [[Physics]], [[molecular biology]], [[behavioral genetics]], [[chronobiology]], [[neurogenetics]] | work_institutions = [[Purdue University]]<br />[[California Institute of Technology]] | alma_mater = [[Brooklyn College]]<br />[[Purdue University]] | thesis_title = Photoelectric Effects in Germanium | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/301828715/ | thesis_year = 1947 | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = molecular and behavioral biology | influences = [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]], [[Max Delbrück]], [[Salvador Luria]], [[Alfred Sturtevant]] | influenced = [[Richard Feynman]], [[Francis Crick]], [[Sydney Brenner]] | prizes = [[Harvey Prize]] (1977)<br>[[Wolf Prize in Medicine]] (1991) <br>[[Royal Society|Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref name=BiogRoySoc>Greenspan R.J. 2012. Seymour Benzer. 15 October 1921 -- 30 November 2007. ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society''. [http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/58/23]</ref> | footnotes = }} '''Seymour Benzer''' (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an [[Americans|American]] [[physicist]], [[biologist]] and [[geneticist]]. He was of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>[http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/27/1/OH_Benzer_S.pdf Oralhistories.library.caltech.edu]</ref> 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 genetics research lab at [[Pu