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Michael Smith (chemist): Works & Career

Michael Smith (April 26, 1932 – October 4, 2000) was a British-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 (himself a Nobel Prize…

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Michael Smith (chemist) topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Michael Smith (chemist).

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Extracted relationships
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Concept neighborhoods
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Bridge connections
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What this topic covers Research coverage

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Overview · 25 topics
Career · 23 topics
Awards and honours · 15 topics
Education and early life · 11 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Known for
Site-directed mutagenesis
Alma mater
University of Manchester (BSc, PhD)
Born
(1932-04-26)26 April 1932 Blackpool, England
Died
4 October 2000(2000-10-04) (aged 68) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Fields
Chemistry
Thesis
Studies in the stereochemistry of diols and their derivatives (1956)

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Overview

Education and early life

Career

Awards and honours

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Michael Smith (chemist) connects Entity context

The extracted context around Michael Smith (chemist) shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Michael Smith (chemist) → University of British Columbia, University of Wisconsin–Madison Another extracted example is Michael Smith (chemist) → University of Manchester (BSc, PhD). Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Michael Smith (chemist)

Top relations

Workplaces · 2
Michael Smith (chemist) → University of British Columbia, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alma mater · 1
Michael Smith (chemist) → University of Manchester (BSc, PhD)
Born · 1
Michael Smith (chemist) → (1932-04-26)26 April 1932 Blackpool, England
Died · 1
Michael Smith (chemist) → 4 October 2000(2000-10-04) (aged 68) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Fields · 1
Michael Smith (chemist) → Chemistry
Known for · 1
Michael Smith (chemist) → Site-directed mutagenesis
Thesis · 1
Michael Smith (chemist) → Studies in the stereochemistry of diols and their derivatives (1956)

Important terminology

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Important terminology

smith research canada chemistry mutagenesis ubc dna biotechnology prize vancouver centre site-directed genome laboratory university british new molecular bc nobel

Michael Smith (chemist) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 8 structured relationships around Michael Smith (chemist). Examples in this analysis include Michael Smith (chemist) → Alma mater → University of Manchester (BSc, PhD) and Michael Smith (chemist) → Born → (1932-04-26)26 April 1932 Blackpool, England. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Michael Smith (chemist)Alma materUniversity of Manchester (BSc, PhD)1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)Born(1932-04-26)26 April 1932 Blackpool, England1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)Died4 October 2000(2000-10-04) (aged 68) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)FieldsChemistry1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)Known forSite-directed mutagenesis1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)ThesisStudies in the stereochemistry of diols and their derivatives (1956)1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)WorkplacesUniversity of British Columbia1.00infobox
Michael Smith (chemist)WorkplacesUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Michael Smith (chemist) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Biology, Genome and Smith. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Michael Smith (chemist), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Michael Smith (chemist) with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Michael Smith (chemist) — Overview · splits 53 ⟂ 26
Michael Smith (chemist) — Career · splits 55 ⟂ 24
Michael Smith (chemist) — Awards and honours · splits 63 ⟂ 16
Michael Smith (chemist) — Education and early life · splits 67 ⟂ 12

Map overview Semantic statistics

Michael Smith (chemist)

Nodes79
Edges78
Triples8
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Michael Smith (chemist) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works & Career, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Michael Smith (chemist) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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