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Oliver Smithies
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Oliver Smithies was a biochemist and geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his work on genetic modification techniques. His research fundamentally advanced our ability to study and understand how genes function by developing methods to precisely alter genes in living organisms.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2007
“for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oliver
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Halifax
- Place of death
- Chapel Hill
- Spouse
- Nobuyo Maeda
- Occupation
- geneticist
- Educated at
- Balliol College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- genetics
- Image
- Oliver-smithies.jpg
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- Commons category
- Oliver Smithies
- date of birth
- 1925-06-23
- Erdős number
- 5
- date of death
- 2017-01-10
- name in native language
- Oliver Smithies
- interested in
- genetics
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Encyclopedic overview
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, 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. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his genetics work.
Early life and education
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