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Michael Smith

Scientist · born April 26, 1932 · died 2000

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Michael Smith was a British-Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis.

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  1. ~61Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1993

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