Oliver Smithies: Born Inventor

Oliver Smithies (1925–2017)

Oliver Smithies Though some 25 years have passed, I can still recall the comfortable predictability of arriving at the lab on a weekend morning and finding Oliver Smithies at work, perhaps at his lab bench setting up a restriction digest in a 5 mL tube or in his office poring over a manuscript. Throughout most of Oliver’s scientific career, one could expect to find him in the lab most evenings ...

A conversation with Oliver Smithies.

Professor Oliver Smithies is the Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Along with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, Oliver was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his contributions to the development of gene targeting using homologous recombination in embryonic stem...

The Whole of a Scientific Career: An Interview with Oliver Smithies

They say that the third time’s the charm, and in the case of my interviewing Oliver Smithies (Fig 1), this old saw held true. Twice before over the past five years I had scheduled an interview with Smithies, only to find myself canceling for one reason or another. Fortunately, Smithies didn’t hold my fickleness against me and agreed to an interview in mid-February. I plotted my travel to Chapel...

Die Autoren Oliver Berthold Oliver Günther

RFID: Consumer Fears and Consumer Protection RFID introduction is a hotly debated public policy issue. The technology enables physical environments to become more interactive and supportive by tagging each item with a chip that wirelessly communicates with a service-enriched backend infrastructure. Based on a number of user studies at Humboldt-Universität and at the Auto-ID Center, this article...

The Individual Inventor