Edwin Southern

Sir

Edwin Southern

FRS FRSE
Sir; Edwin Southern; FRS FRSE
	Sir Edwin in 2012
Born	Edwin Mellor Southern; 7 June 1938; Burnley, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Manchester (BSc) University of Glasgow (PhD);
Known for	Southern blot
Awards	Gairdner award (1990); Royal Medal (1998); Lasker Award (2005);
	Scientific career
Fields	Molecular Biology
Institutions	University of Oxford; University of Edinburgh; Oxford Gene Technology;
Thesis	Studies on synthetic and naturally occurring enzyme metabolites (1964)
Doctoral students	Robin Allshire
Website	www.ogt.co.uk/about/company/management/board_members/professor_sir_edwin_southern

Sir Edwin Mellor Southern FRS FRSE (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He is most widely known for the invention of the Southern blot, published in 1975 and now a common laboratory procedure.

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