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1st Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Thomas Steitz, PhD

2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”

2nd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Thomas Cech, PhD

1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”

3rd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Harold Varmus, MD

1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”

4th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Martin Chalfie, PhD

2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”

5th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Randy Scheckman, PhD

2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”

6th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Brian Kobilka, MD

2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”

7th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Mario Capecchi, PhD

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”

8th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

George Smith, PhD

2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”

9th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

William Moerner, PhD

2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”

10th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture

Jennifer Doudna, PhD

2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prize motivation: “for the development of a method for genome editing”