Oliver Smithies
British-American geneticist
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 ... Wikipedia
Born: June 23, 1925, Halifax, United Kingdom
Died: January 10, 2017 (age 91 years), Chapel Hill, NC
Spouse: Nobuyo Maeda (m. ?–2017)
Education: University of Oxford, Balliol College, and The Crossley Heath School
Thesis: Physico-chemical properties of solutions of proteins (1951)