Oliver Smithies
British-American geneticist (1925–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist. He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955,[4] and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice.[5][6][7] He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his genetics work.[8][9]
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Born | (1925-06-23)23 June 1925 Halifax, West Yorkshire, England |
Died | 10 January 2017(2017-01-10) (aged 91) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US |
Nationality | British, American |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
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Spouse | Nobuyo Maeda[1] |
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Thesis | Physico-chemical properties of solutions of proteins (1951) |
Doctoral advisor | Alexander G. Ogston[3] |
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