Robert H. T. Smith | |
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President of the University of British Columbia (pro tempore) | |
In office 1985 | |
Preceded by | George Pedersen |
Succeeded by | David Strangway |
Personal details | |
Born | Walcha,New South Wales,Australia | May 22,1935
Occupation | geographer |
Robert Henry Tufrey Smith AM (born May 22,1935) is an Australian-Canadian academic who was the president pro tempore of the University of British Columbia in 1985. [1] A professor of geography,Smith was educated at Australian National University,the University of New England and Northwestern University. [2] In 1964,he was a Guggenheim Fellow. [3] He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a member of the Order of Australia. [4]
Michael Smith 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 at the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver,British Columbia,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 and the founding scientific leader of the Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence (PENCE). In 1996 he was named Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology. Subsequently,he became the founding director of the Genome Sequencing Centre at the BC Cancer Research Centre.
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