John Derek SmithFRS (Born 8 December 1924Southampton, England - died 22 November 2003 in Cambridge) was a British molecular biologist who participated in many of the major discoveries at theLaboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge.[1]
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He was one of the very few scientists who understood the importance of nucleic acids before 1953. According to Nobel LaureateSidney Altman
"John Smith was a venerable nucleic acids biochemist. He had worked on the nucleic acids of viruses long before coming to the MRC-LMB and was an expert on identification and characterization of nucleotides, much of it done on unlabeled material, detected by observing chromatographs under UV light. He was a quiet person but very lively in conversations about science."[2]
His doctoral students includeGerard R. Wyatt.
In 1955 he married Ruth Aney (marriage dissolved 1968). He had a long term relationship with Rosemary Myers, an artist, which continued until his death.
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