| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Brooklyn_College gptkb:Purdue_University
 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Albert_Lasker_Award_for_Basic_Medical_Research gptkb:Gairdner_Foundation_International_Award
 gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
 gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Medicine
 gptkb:Thomas_Hunt_Morgan_Medal
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1921-10-15 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:New_York_City 
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                                | gptkbp:causeOfDeath | stroke 
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                                | gptkbp:children | gptkb:Barbara_Benzer gptkb:Martha_Benzer
 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 2007-11-30 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Pasadena,_California 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Karl_Lark-Horovitz 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralStudent | gptkb:Jeffrey_C._Hall gptkb:Michael_Rosbash
 gptkb:Martin_Raff
 gptkb:Ronald_Konopka
 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology gptkb:Purdue_University
 
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                                | gptkbp:ethnicity | Jewish American 
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                                | gptkbp:fieldOfWork | biophysics genetics
 molecular biology
 neurogenetics
 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Jeffrey_C._Hall gptkb:Michael_Rosbash
 gptkb:Martin_Raff
 gptkb:Ronald_Konopka
 neurogenetics research
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | research on Drosophila melanogaster pioneering neurogenetics
 work on the fine structure of the gene
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:notableWork | identification of behavioral mutants in Drosophila fine-structure mapping of the rII region of bacteriophage T4
 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:biologist gptkb:physicist
 
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                                | gptkbp:residence | gptkb:Pasadena,_California 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Dorothea_Benzer 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Herman_J._Muller gptkb:phage_group
 gptkb:Drosophila_melanogaster
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 5 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Seymour Benzer 
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