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| complete name: |
Oliver Smithies |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
2007 |
| together with: |
Martin Evans |
| together with: |
Mario Capecchi |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 was awarded jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Oliver |
| family name: |
Smithies |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
biochemist |
| field of work: |
biochemistry |
| field of work: |
genetics |
| work location: |
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| 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. |
| image copyright: |
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2007/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1925 |
| date death: |
2017 |
| usual name: |
Oliver Smithies |
