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Oliver Smithies receiving a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with two other scientists, in Stockholm in 2007.
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Oliver Smithies
Died on January 10, 2017 at age 91
A British-born biochemist, Dr. Smithies shared a Nobel Prize for discovering a powerful tool for identifying the roles of individual genes in health and disease.
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