Oliver Smithies

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Oliver Smithies (May 2009)

Oliver Smithies (born June 23, 1925 in Halifax , West Yorkshire , England , † January 10, 2017 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina , United States ) was an English-American geneticist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007. He was honored together with Martin Evans and Mario Capecchi for research on the knockout mouse .

As early as the early 1950s, he had made a decisive contribution to the development of gel electrophoresis , by pointing out the advantages of using starch gels in 1955. Smithies was a citizen of the United States .

academic career

Smithies (second from left) with fellow Nobel Prize winners with US President George W. Bush

Oliver Smithies initially studied animal physiology at Oxford, and in collaboration with Alexander George Ogston , he earned his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in biochemistry at the University of Oxford in 1951 . He then moved to the University of Wisconsin – Madison , and from 1953 to 1960 he worked at the Connaught Medical Research Laboratory , University of Toronto , Canada. From 1960 to 1988 he was Assistant, Associate and Leon J. Cole and Hilldale Professor of Genetics and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. From 1988 Smithies Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Awards

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Smithies, Carolina's first Nobel laureate, passes away at 91 . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , January 11, 2017, accessed January 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ Matthew Burns: UNC Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies dies . WRAL.com, January 11, 2017, accessed January 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Smithies, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-American geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , West Yorkshire , England
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2017
Place of death Chapel Hill , North Carolina , United States