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Oliver Smithies grave (2017)
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Description
Oliver Smithies
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,
[4]
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
.
[5]
[6]
[7]
He received the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
in 2007 for his genetics work.
[8]
[9]
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver Smithies
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175204396/oliver-smithies
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