Michael Smith
Organic Chemistry
Won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 for discovering site-directed mutagenesis: that is, how to make a genetic mutation precisely at any spot in a dna molecule. "In research you really have to love and be committed to your work because things have more of a chance of going wrong than right. But when things go right, there is nothing more exciting." |
- Birthplace
- Blackpool, England
- Place of Death
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Family Members
- Father: Rowland Smith
- Mother: Mary Agnes Armstead
- Children: Tom, Ian, Wendy
- Personality
- Shy, caring, busy, focused, generous, and a procrastinator
- Favorite Music
- Sibelius?s 2nd Symphony (slow movement)
- Other Interests
- Philanthropy, scouts, camping, hiking, sailing, skiing, reading the New Yorker and the Manchester Guardian
- Title
- University Killam Professor, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology
- Office
- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
- Status
- Deceased
- Degrees
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- BSc (Honours Chemistry), University of Manchester, England, 1953
- PhD (Chemistry), University of Manchester, England 1956
- Awards
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- Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize, UBC, 1977
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1981
- Boehringer Mannheim Prize of the Canadian Biochemical Society, 1981
- Gold Medal, Science Council of BC, 1984
- Fellow, Royal Society (London), 1986
- Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1986
- Killam Research Prize, UBC, 1986
- Award of Excellence, Genetics Society of Canada, 1988
- G. Malcolm Brown Award, Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, 1989
- Flavelle Medal, Royal Society of Canada, 1992
- Manning Award, 1995
- Laureate of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
- Mentor
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who taught him the organic chemistry of biological molecules which make up DNA
- Last Updated
- July 13, 2011
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