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Oliver Smithies

Oliver Smithies joined UNC's faculty in 1988 with Nobuyo Maeda and became Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His Chapel Hill laboratory produced the first cystic fibrosis animal model in 1992, he kept a plane at Horace Williams Airport, and in 2007 he became the first full-time Carolina faculty member to win a Nobel Prize.

Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: Oliver Smithies, Carolina's first Nobel laureate, passes away at 91

1925–2017 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Oliver Smithies, 2009
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  1. Oliver Smithies and Nobuyo Maeda join the UNC faculty Smithies and Nobuyo Maeda came to UNC's School of Medicine in 1988; Smithies later described himself as the trailing spouse, UNC having recruited Maeda. People: Aziz SancarSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Oliver Smithies, Carolina's first Nobel laureate, passes away at 91
  2. Smithies lab develops the first cystic fibrosis animal model Smithies's laboratory at UNC used his gene-targeting method to produce the first animal model of cystic fibrosis.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Oliver Smithies, Carolina's first Nobel laureate, passes away at 91
  3. Oliver Smithies wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2007 prize to Smithies, Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans for discovering principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. Smithies was at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Search the index · Nobel Prize: Press release, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
  4. Smithies and Sancar give replica Nobel medals to UNC At a Davis Library gathering, Oliver Smithies and Aziz Sancar presented gold-plated bronze replicas of their Nobel Prize medals to the university. Chancellor Carol Folt recounted that Sancar had led the search committee that brought Nobuyo Maeda and Smithies to UNC. People: Oliver Smithies, Carol L. FoltSearch the index · UNC School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics: UNC Nobel laureates Oliver Smithies and Aziz Sancar present medals to UNC
  5. UNC puts Oliver Smithies's research notebooks online UNC released digitized copies of the research notebooks Smithies had kept since his graduate student days, while he was still working in his lab at 91.Search the index · UNC News Archives: Decades of research notebooks from Carolina's first Nobel laureate available online

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Picture: Oliver Smithies, 2009. CC BY-SA 3.0. Photograph by Douglas A. Lockard; Science History Institute, Douglas A. Lockard.; via Wikimedia Commons

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