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)

Born in United Kingdom, England

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

First Name Issac

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