Albert Lasker Award
for Special Achievement in Medical Science

Brenner, S., Jacob, F., and Meselson, M. (1961) An unstable intermediate carrying information from genes to ribosomes for protein synthesis. Nature 190: 576–581.

Crick, F.H.C., Barnett, L., Brenner, S. and Watts-Tobin, R.J. (1961) General nature of the genetic code for proteins. Nature 192: 1227–1232.

Jacob, F., and Brenner, S. Genetique Physiologique—sur la regulation de la synthese du DNA chez les bacteries: l'hypothese du replicon. (1963) C.R. Acad. Sci. 256: 298–300.

Brenner, S., Stretton, A.O.W. and Kaplan, S. (1965) Genetic code: the nonsense triplets for chain termination and their suppression. Nature 206: 994–998.

Brenner, S. The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. (1974) Genetics 77: 71–94.

Brenner, S., Elgar, G., Sandford, R. Macrae, A., Venkatesh, B., and Aparicio, S. (1993) Characterization of the pufferfish (Fugu) genome as a compact model vertebrate genome. Nature 366: 265–267.