Awards & Winners

Edwin Southern

Date of Birth 07-June-1938
Place of Birth Burnley
(Lancashire, England, United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Chemist
Sir Edwin Mellor Southern, FRS is an English 2005 Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist. His award was for the invention of the Southern blot, now a common laboratory procedure, when he was working at the University of Edinburgh.

Awards by Edwin Southern

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edwin Southern.

2005


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For development of two powerful technologies\u2014Southern hybridization and DNA fingerprinting\u2014that together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.)

1990


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the discovery, development and application of gel electrophoresis methods that allow the separation and identification of specific proteins and nucleic acids.)