Description
Oliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the introduction of starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, 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.
Born
June 23rd, 1925 in Halifax / Died: Jan 10th, 2017
Last Changes
2017/01/12
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2010/08/31
New Response (Success): sent SASE and photo to be signed. he signed and in..
2009/11/22
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Prob.Auth)