Hamilton Smith
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1978for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
- Citizenship
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/23/1931
- place of birth
- New York City
- date of death
- 10/25/2025
- place of death
- Ellicott City
- Lived
- 94 years
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- occupation
- biochemist
- microbiologist
- biologist
- biotechnologist
- field of work
- genomics
- biochemistry
- microbiology
- molecular biology
- educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- academic degree: bachelor's degree
- academic major: biology
- start time: 1950
- end time: 1952
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University Laboratory High School
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
- end time: 1956
- University of California, Berkeley
- employer
- J. Craig Venter Institute
- Johns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences