Dr. Smithies won the Nobel Prize for developing a technique used to manipulate genes in mice. Dr. Smithies shared his 2007 prize with the University of Utah’s Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans of Cardiff University in Britain. On that day, his lab threw together a party for the modest Dr. Smithies. “I feel rather peaceful,” Dr. Smithies told the News & Observer of Raleigh at the time. Last fall, the university launched the Oliver Smithies Research Archive website to make available more than 150 of his notebooks.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2017 20:25 UTC