Edwin Southern
Sir Edwin Southern | |
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Sir Edwin in 2012 | |
| Born | Edwin Mellor Southern 7 June 1938 Burnley, United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Manchester (BSc)
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| Known for | Southern blot |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular Biology |
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| Thesis | Studies on synthetic and naturally occurring enzyme metabolites (1964) |
| Doctoral students | Robin Allshire |
| Website | www |
Sir Edwin Mellor Southern FRS FRSE (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He is most widely known for the invention of the Southern blot, published in 1975 and now a common laboratory procedure.