RETROSPECTIVE Correction for “The sui generis Sydney Brenner,” by Thoru Pederson, which was first published June 10, 2019; 10.1073/pnas.1907536116 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 13155–13157).
The author notes that, on page 13155, left column, second paragraph, lines 13–14, “Cyril Hinshelwood at Oxford, a leading figure in the early bacteriophage field” has been revised to read “Cyril Hinshelwood at Oxford, a chemist turned bacteriologist.”
Additionally, in the original version of this article, the author stated that the experiments performed by Brenner and Crick involved chemically induced mutations in given DNA letters. In fact, most of the data were from spontaneous mutations. We have removed this incorrect assertion.
The online version of the article has been corrected.