In April 26, 1932, Dr. Michael Smith was a British-born in black pool England and studied to become a great Canadian Biochemist. Here's Some of his child hood he does not remember a lot Though but he does remember one time. When He was seven World War II broke out his parents were not home and bombs fell on either side of their house, barely missing him. He said"that was the scariest moment in his child hood by far. In school for him English working class every one had to take an exam called the Eleven Plus when they were 11 to see if they would go to a private school or continue in the public school.
where they would learned things to finish school at age sixteen. Dr. Smith did very well in his Eleven Plus and was offered to go …show more content…
This was not the chemistry in which Dr. Smith had been wanting to do, but he went to Canada anyway. It was a very good decision, because in Khorana’s lab, Dr. Smith began learning the chemistry that would lead to his Nobel Prize. Khorana himself received a Nobel Prize in 1968. In 1961 Dr. Smith took a job as chemist at the Fisheries Research Board of Canada laboratory in Vancouver and published many papers about marine molluscs,like crabs but he managed to sustain his research in DNA chemistry with grants he obtained on his …show more content…
Smith won his biggest reward October 4, 2000 he won the noble prize of 1993 but did not keep the money. Research money is scarce so he gave half to researchers working on the genetics of a widespread mental disorder. Dr. Smith also got other rewards like the research Prize of 1977, Gold Medal, Science Council of BC of 1984, Royal Society (London) in 1986 and the Laureate of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. His Mentor Har Gobind Khorana a Nobel Prize winning chemist taught him the organic chemistry of biological molecules of which makes up DNA. Dr. Smith’s greatest accomplishment was the discovery of site directed mutagenesis, which created specific mutations. This showed how to make a genetic mutation precisely at any spot in a DNA molecule. He discovered this while talking with a scientist named Clyde over coffee in an research institute. Every seven years, university professors get a year off, with pay, to travel anywhere they want to do research.
It was in 1976 Dr. Smith while spending a year in Cambridge, England, where DNA was first explained by James Watson and Francis Crick that he learned how to sequence genes to determine the order of the links that make up a chain of DNA. Dr. Smith was there to study his technique; geneticists can mutate precise gene substitution of one or more nucleotides in a DNA sequence. Scientists can also delete nucleotides or add extra nucleotides to the
where they would learned things to finish school at age sixteen. Dr. Smith did very well in his Eleven Plus and was offered to go …show more content…
This was not the chemistry in which Dr. Smith had been wanting to do, but he went to Canada anyway. It was a very good decision, because in Khorana’s lab, Dr. Smith began learning the chemistry that would lead to his Nobel Prize. Khorana himself received a Nobel Prize in 1968. In 1961 Dr. Smith took a job as chemist at the Fisheries Research Board of Canada laboratory in Vancouver and published many papers about marine molluscs,like crabs but he managed to sustain his research in DNA chemistry with grants he obtained on his …show more content…
Smith won his biggest reward October 4, 2000 he won the noble prize of 1993 but did not keep the money. Research money is scarce so he gave half to researchers working on the genetics of a widespread mental disorder. Dr. Smith also got other rewards like the research Prize of 1977, Gold Medal, Science Council of BC of 1984, Royal Society (London) in 1986 and the Laureate of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. His Mentor Har Gobind Khorana a Nobel Prize winning chemist taught him the organic chemistry of biological molecules of which makes up DNA. Dr. Smith’s greatest accomplishment was the discovery of site directed mutagenesis, which created specific mutations. This showed how to make a genetic mutation precisely at any spot in a DNA molecule. He discovered this while talking with a scientist named Clyde over coffee in an research institute. Every seven years, university professors get a year off, with pay, to travel anywhere they want to do research.
It was in 1976 Dr. Smith while spending a year in Cambridge, England, where DNA was first explained by James Watson and Francis Crick that he learned how to sequence genes to determine the order of the links that make up a chain of DNA. Dr. Smith was there to study his technique; geneticists can mutate precise gene substitution of one or more nucleotides in a DNA sequence. Scientists can also delete nucleotides or add extra nucleotides to the