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Smith was born on August 23, 1931, and graduated from in 1956 .

He was awarded the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine in 1978 for discovering type II Restriction Enzyme s with Werner Arber and Daniel Nathans as co-recipients.

He later became a leading figure in the nascent field of Genomics , when in 1995 he and a team at The Institute For Genomic Research sequenced the first bacterial genome, that of ''Haemophilus influenza''. ''H. influenza'' was the same organism in which Smith had discovered restriction enzymes in the late 1960s.


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