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Edwin Southern
English molecular biologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Edwin Mellor Southern FRS FRSE (born 7 June 1938)[4] is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He is most widely known for the invention of the Southern blot, published in 1975[5] and now a common laboratory procedure.[6][7][8][9]
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Born | Edwin Mellor Southern (1938-06-07) 7 June 1938 (age 86)[1] Burnley, United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Manchester (BSc)
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Known for | Southern blot |
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Fields | Molecular Biology |
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Thesis | Studies on synthetic and naturally occurring enzyme metabolites (1964) |
Doctoral students | Robin Allshire[3] |
Website | www |
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