Oliver Smithies (1925-2017)

Awarded the Prize "for the discovery of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."

American Geneticist. Oliver Smithies was born on 23 June 1925 in Halifax, England. He received his bachelor Doctor of Science from Oxford in 1946 and 1951. he was member of US Aacademy of Sciences, Fellow of American Academy of Arts Sciences, Chairman of US Academy of Genetics and Professor in University of North Carolina, Chapel hill Campus. Oliver Smithies died on 10 January 2017, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.