Hamilton Smith - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1978
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Hamilton Smith

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1978
for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
Together with: Daniel Nathans , Werner Arber
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
8/23/1931
place of birth
New York City
date of death
10/25/2025
place of death
Ellicott City
Lived
94 years

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educated at
  • University of California, Berkeley
    • academic degree: bachelor's degree
    • academic major: biology
    • end time: 1952
    • start time: 1950
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    • academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
    • end time: 1956
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • University Laboratory High School
  • Johns Hopkins University
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
field of work
  • microbiology
  • molecular biology
  • genomics
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • microbiologist
  • biotechnologist
  • biochemist
  • biologist
employer
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • J. Craig Venter Institute
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