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.

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Grace Smithies

First Name Grace
Last Name Smithies
Died on November 10, 1854
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Issac Smithies

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