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Hamilton Smith
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American microbiologist (1931–2025)
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Hamilton Othanel Smith (1931–2025) was an American biochemist, microbiologist, and biologist. Born in New York City, he died in Ellicott City. His professional career included positions at Johns Hopkins University, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the J. Craig Venter Institute. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Smith’s fields of work encompassed microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genomics. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and Johns Hopkins University.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Crossref, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Las últimas Palabras de Cristo
- The Epistle to the Romans
- The last words
- The Epistle to the Colossians
- Last Message
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-08-06
- Active to
- 2003-10-21
Discography
- Shytown / No Confidence Man1994
- Roman Candle1994
- Needle in the Hay1995
- Elliott Smith1995
- Speed Trials1996
- Division Day / No Name #61997
- Either/Or1997
- Ballad of Big Nothing1998
- XO1998
- Waltz #2 (XO)1998
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 4
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hamilton+Smith">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,650x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,301x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION
· 1960 · cited 25,395x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,341x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1931-08-23 ) August 23, 1931, New York City, U.S
- Died
- October 25, 2025 (2025-10-25) (aged 94), Ellicott City, Maryland , U.S.
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley , BA, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , MD
- Known for
- Restriction enzymes
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978
- Fields
- Molecular biology , biochemistry , genomics
- Institutions
- Washington University School of Medicine
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1978
“for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”
Shared · 1/3 portion
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Hamilton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Ellicott City
- Occupation
- microbiologist
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins University
- Employer
- J. Craig Venter Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- genomics
- Image
- Hamilton Smith, 2.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Hamilton Othanel Smith
- date of birth
- 1931-08-23
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Hamilton Othanel Smith
- date of death
- 2025-10-25
- interested in
- microbiology
Sources (14)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Hamilton Othanel Smith (August 31, 1931 – October 25, 2025) was an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hamilton Smith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.