Seymour Benzer

Seymour Benzer (born October 15, 1921) is an accomplished American physicist and biologist. He is currently James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. In 1993, he received the Crafoord Prize for work with behavioral mutants of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Benzer is the subject of the 1999 book "Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner.

External links

• Dr. Benzer's home page at the Caltech Biology Division website
• Benzer Lab home page
• Interview with Seymour Benzer conducted by the Oral History Project of the Caltech Archives
• A Conversation with Jonathan Weiner, author of Time, Love, Memory