Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p John Derek Smith FRS (1924–2003) was a British Molecular Biologist who participated in many of the major discoveries at the LMB Born Southampton, England 8 December 1924 Scientific staff, Agricultural Research Council Virus Research Unit, Cambridge 1945-59; Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge 1949-52; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, University of California, Berkeley 1955-57; Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology 1959-62, Member of Scientific Staff, LMB, Cambridge 1962-88 Sherman Fairchild Scholar 1974-75; Head, Subdivision of Biochemistry, Cell Biology Division 1976-88 FRS 1976;In 1955 he married Ruth Aney (marriage dissolved 1968); died Cambridge 22 November 2003.He was one the very few scientists who understood the importance of nucleic acids before 1953. According to Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman"John Smith was a venerable nucleic acids biochemist. He had worked on the nucleic acids of viruses long before coming to the MRC-LMB and was an expert on identification and characterization of nucleotides, much of it done on unlabeled material, detected by observing chromatographs under UV light. He was a quiet person but very lively in conversations about science.". }
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- John_Derek_Smith abstract "John Derek Smith FRS (1924–2003) was a British Molecular Biologist who participated in many of the major discoveries at the LMB Born Southampton, England 8 December 1924 Scientific staff, Agricultural Research Council Virus Research Unit, Cambridge 1945-59; Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge 1949-52; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, University of California, Berkeley 1955-57; Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology 1959-62, Member of Scientific Staff, LMB, Cambridge 1962-88 Sherman Fairchild Scholar 1974-75; Head, Subdivision of Biochemistry, Cell Biology Division 1976-88 FRS 1976;In 1955 he married Ruth Aney (marriage dissolved 1968); died Cambridge 22 November 2003.He was one the very few scientists who understood the importance of nucleic acids before 1953. According to Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman"John Smith was a venerable nucleic acids biochemist. He had worked on the nucleic acids of viruses long before coming to the MRC-LMB and was an expert on identification and characterization of nucleotides, much of it done on unlabeled material, detected by observing chromatographs under UV light. He was a quiet person but very lively in conversations about science."".