photo Oliver Smithies

Oliver Smithies

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2007
for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
Together with: Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans

Citizenship: United KingdomUnited States
Languages: English
date of birth: 6/23/1925
place of birth: Halifax
date of death: 1/10/2017
place of death: Chapel Hill
Lived: 91 years

occupation: university teacher
biochemist
geneticist
field of work: biochemistry
genetics
educated at: Balliol College
employer: University of Toronto
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin–Madison
member of: Royal Society of London
National Academy of Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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