Michael Smith

Michael Smith

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus

“for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies”

Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary B. Mullis for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies. He was affiliated with the University of British Columbia.

Field
Chemistry · Biochemistry
Lifespan
1932–2000