caption thesis_year death_date death_place religion birth_place influences thesis_title image_size nationality workplaces field birth_date thesis_url image article_title name alma_mater
michael smith 1956 4 october 2000 vancouver , british columbia , canada atheist blackpool , england fred sanger flavelle medal nobel prize in chemistry studies in the stereochemistry of diols and their derivatives 180px canada university of british columbia university of wisconsin -- madison chemistry 26 april 1932 http://ethos.bl.uk/orderdetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488357 michaelsmith.jpg michael smith -lrb- chemist -rrb-
 michael smith university of manchester -lrb- bsc , phd -rrb-
michael smith -lrb- chemist -rrb-

michael smith cc , obc , frs -lrb- april 26 , 1932 -- october 4 , 2000 -rrb- was a british-born canadian biochemist and businessman .
he shared the 1993 nobel prize in chemistry with kary mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis .
following a phd in 1956 from the university of manchester , he undertook postdoctoral research with har gobind khorana -lrb- himself a nobel prize winner -rrb- at the british columbia research council in vancouver , canada .
subsequently , smith worked at the fisheries research board of canada laboratory in vancouver before being appointed a professor of biochemistry in the ubc faculty of medicine in 1966 .
smith 's career included roles as the founding director of the ubc biotechnology laboratory -lrb- 1987 to 1995 -rrb- and the founding scientific leader of the protein engineering network of centres of excellence -lrb- pence -rrb- .
in 1996 he was named peter wall distinguished professor of biotechnology .
subsequently he became the founding director of the genome sequencing centre -lrb- now called the genome sciences centre -rrb- at the bc cancer research centre .
