Michael Smith:
Michael Smith was a British-Canadian biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
April 26, 1932 in Blackpool, England
Death:
October 4, 2000 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Claim to Fame:
Smith was a Canadian biochemist whose research into olignucleotide based site-directed mutagenesis earned him half the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Site-directed mutagenesis is a technique where a mutation is created at a specific, defined site in a DNA molecule. This work is important to genetic and protein research and engineering.
