Oliver Smithies

Oliver Smithies 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…

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Who was born first?

• Oliver Smithies and Robert Edwards were born the same year
• Oliver Smithies and Baruch Samuel Blumberg were born the same year
• Oliver Smithies and Paul Wild were born the same year
• Oliver Smithies and Frank Kameny were born the same year
• Oliver Smithies and Leo Esaki were born the same year

Timeline

1. Baruch Samuel BlumbergJuly 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011
2. Frank KamenyMay 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011
3. Leo EsakiMarch 12, 1925 – present
4. Oliver Smithies (this page)June 23, 1925 – January 10, 2017
5. Paul WildOctober 5, 1925 – July 2, 2014
6. Robert EdwardsSeptember 27, 1925 – April 10, 2013

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