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Oliver Smithies
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Person

Oliver Smithies

1925 – 2017 · aged 92

Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

Born
23 Jun 1925 · Halifax
Died
10 Jan 2017 · Chapel Hill

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 23 Jun 1925BornBorn in Halifax
  2. 1993AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  3. 1993AwardNorth Carolina Award for Science
  4. 1994AwardAlfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
  5. 1997AwardBristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research
  6. 1998AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  7. 2001AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  8. 2002AwardMassry Prize
  9. 2002AwardWolf Prize in Medicine
  10. 2004AwardFriedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
  11. 2005AwardMarch of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
  12. 2006AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  13. 2007AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  14. 10 Jan 2017DiedDied in Chapel Hill

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1925 – 2017).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

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, 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. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his genetics work.

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