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  1. Washington University School of Medicine. Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate. [1] [2] Smith graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California ...

  2. Apr 9, 2024 · Hamilton O. Smith (born August 23, 1931, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American microbiologist who shared, with Werner Arber and Daniel Nathans, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978 for his discovery of a new class of restriction enzymes that recognize specific sequences of nucleotides in a molecule of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid ...

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  3. Jan 2, 2024 · Hamilton O. Smith was born on August 23, 1931, in New York City. He was the son of Othanel Smith, a professor of education, and Evelyn Smith. Smith showed an early interest in science, and he graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, in 1949. He then went on to earn a B.A. in mathematics from the University of ...

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  5. Dec 22, 2020 · (La Jolla, California)—December 22, 2020—Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., Nobel Laureate, distinguished professor and scientific director of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) Synthetic Biology Group, is retiring from daily duties at the Institute effective December 31, 2020.

  6. Interview with Hamilton Smith and Richard Roberts by Sture Forsén and Nils Ringertz at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 2000. Hamilton Smith and Richard Roberts talk about the announcement of HUGO, the Human Genome Project; the number of genes in the human genome (5:16); how ‘Proteomics’ will help define the function ...

  7. Nobel Lecture, 8 December, 1978. by. HAMILTON. O. SMITH Department of Microbiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A. INTRODUCTION. In the past seven to eight years we have witnessed the development of a new DNA technology that has fundamentally altered our approach to modern genetics.

  8. Smith is scientific director of privately held Synthetic Genomics, which was founded in 2005 by Craig Venter to continue this work. Synthetic Genomics is working to produce biofuels on an industrial-scale using recombinant algae and other microorganisms. Hamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.

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