Sydney completed his schooling from Germiston High School and he later went to the University of the Witwatersrand to complete his education. He made several achievements in his school. While pursuing masters, he chooses cytogenetics as his field. Sydney also went to Oxford University to complete his Ph.D. this was a major accomplishment for him.

Sydney later went to the University of California for research work and he worked in Laboratory of Molecular Biology for 20 years. It is known that Sydney started working with Salk Institute in 1976. It is known that Sydney made a lot of contribution in microbiology and he was known to be the first person who proved that it is impossible to overlap the generic coding sequence. He also proposed many more models about DNA and RNA.

It is known that Sydney also helped in finding the nature of genetic codes found in nature. As per the records, Sydney also has a laboratory in Singapore. He also worked in the research of the development of neural networks in the animal. For the purpose of research, he used roundworms and he found the functions of the genes through his research. The basic idea was to find the roundworms with a certain defect and then the DNA of the roundworm with a defect was compared to the DNA of the normal roundworm. This helped in understanding the difference in DNA which was later evaluated to understand the part of DNA and map the functions to the corresponding part. He was honored with the Nobel Prize for discovery of this new concept.

In 1952, he decided to get married and the name of his wife was May Brenner. The couple lived together for 58 years but unfortunately, Sydney’s wife passed away in 2010. It is known that this was May’s second marriage and she also had a son from her first marriage. In total, Sydney was the father of four children. Out of these four, three were his biological children.

It is also known that Sydney doesn’t believe in god and he doesn’t follow any religion. Technically, Sydney is an atheist. Sydney also won several awards like he won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2002, he also won Kyoto Prize along with a Harvey Prize. There are many more awards which Sydney received in his lifetime.

The annual salary of Sydney is not known and there is no information about his total net worth either. He is speculated to be a really high net worth individual and the basis of this speciation is the work and contribution he made in the field of science.