Alec Jeffreys
British geneticist
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and... Wikipedia
Born: 1950 (age 74 years), Oxford, United Kingdom
Education: University of Oxford, Luton Sixth Form College, and Merton College
Spouse: Susan (m. 1971)
Fields: Genetics
Thesis: Studies on the mitochondria of cultured mammalian cells (1975)