List of Famous people with last name Smithies

Oliver Smithies

First Name Oliver
Last Name Smithies
Born on June 23, 1925
Died on January 10, 2017 (aged 91)

Oliver Smithies 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.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Grace Smithies

First Name Grace
Last Name Smithies
Died on November 10, 1854
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Issac Smithies

First Name Issac
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.018599987030029s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.013325929641724s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.013290882110596s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0062239170074463s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0050539970397949s
t_/blocks/person-card: 3x 0.0048971176147461s
router_page: 1x 0.004763126373291s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.004101037979126s
headline: 2x 0.0019941329956055s
qids: 2x 0.00087809562683105s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.0002901554107666s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.0002739429473877s
head-facts: 1x 0.00026392936706543s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.5974044799805E-5s
related: 1x 4.0531158447266E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-10-06 03:37:10)  -----