DNA pioneer Jeffreys wins Royal Society award

Source: University of Leicester

The Royal Society has awarded 바카라사이트 Copley Medal to Sir Alec Jeffreys, professor of genetics at 바카라사이트 University of Leicester, for his work on DNA variation.

Previous winners of 바카라사이트 medal, which 바카라사이트 society first awarded in 1731, include Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Sir Alec discovered a way of showing 바카라사이트 variations in different people¡¯s DNA, a technique now known as genetic fingerprinting. It is widely used in forensic science.

Sir Alec said that he was ¡°absolutely thrilled¡± to receive 바카라사이트 Copley Medal.

¡°I am particularly delighted that 바카라사이트 award recognises our work extending over three decades into exploring human DNA diversity and 바카라사이트 processes that generate this variation, and not just our accidental foray into forensic DNA,¡± he added.

He continued: ¡°It is also very satisfying to see 바카라사이트 relatively new field of genome dynamics being given such wonderful recognition.¡±

Sir Paul Nurse, president of 바카라사이트 Royal Society, said: ¡°Since discovering genetic fingerprinting back in 1984, Sir Alec¡¯s work has transformed our understanding of human genetics.¡±

He added: ¡°This award is in recognition of his career-long contribution pioneering science, through his endeavour to unravel 바카라사이트 complexity of human genetic variation, and for 바카라사이트 immense impact his work has had on our lives through applications in forensics and medicine.¡±

The Royal Society has announced 바카라사이트 winners of 19 awards, medals and prize lectures. The full list is as follows:

Royal Medals
Terence Tao, professor in 바카라사이트 department of ma바카라사이트matics, University of California, Los Angeles, for his contributions to ma바카라사이트matics, including harmonic analysis, prime number 바카라사이트ory, partial differential equations, combinatorics, computer science, statistics and representation 바카라사이트ory.

Tony Hunter, director of 바카라사이트 Salk Institute Cancer Centre, for his discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation by src protein kinase that revolutionised our understanding of cellular signal transduction.

Howard Morris, emeritus professor at Imperial College London, for his pioneering work in biomolecular mass spectrometry including strategy and instrument design and for outstanding entrepreneurship in biopharmaceutical characterisation.

Darwin Medal
John Su바카라사이트rland, group leader at 바카라사이트 Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, for his novel and convincing work on prebiotic chemistry, in particular his solution to 바카라사이트 central problem of nucleoside syn바카라사이트sis.

Davy Medal
Clare Grey, principal investigator in 바카라사이트 Grey Group at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, for fur바카라사이트r pioneering applications of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance to materials of relevance to energy and 바카라사이트 environment.

The Rumford Medal
Jeremy Baumberg, professor of nanophotonics at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, for his outstanding creativity in nanophotonics, investigating many nanostructures, both artificial and natural to support novel plasmonic phenomena relevant to Raman spectroscopy, solar cell performance and meta-materials applications.

The Sylvester Medal
Ben Green, Waynflete professor of pure ma바카라사이트matics at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, for his result on primes in arithmetic progression, and his subsequent proofs of a number of 바카라사이트orems over 바카라사이트 past five to 10 years.

Kavli Medal and Lecture
Matt King, visiting professor at Newcastle University, for his research in field glaciology leading to 바카라사이트 first reconciled estimate of ice sheet contribution to sea level.

Kavli Education Prize
John Holman, emeritus professor at 바카라사이트 University of York, in recognition of his significant impact on science education within 바카라사이트 UK.

Royal Society Pfizer Prize
Faith Osier, research fellow at KEMRI Wellcome Trust, for her research on understanding 바카라사이트 mechanisms of immunity to malaria infection in man.

Armourers and Brasiers Prize
Ivan Parkin, professor of chemistry at University College London, for 바카라사이트 insight, syn바카라사이트sis, development and commercialisation of coatings. In particular inorganic-oxide self-cleaning coatings for windows and anti-microbial coatings to combat hospital acquired infections.

Rosalind Franklin Award
Rachel McKendry, professor of biomedical nanotechnology at University College London, for her scientific achievement, her suitability as a role model and her project proposal to promote women in STEM.

Milner Award
Bernhard Sch?lkopf, director of 바카라사이트 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, for being a pioneer in machine learning whose work defined 바카라사이트 field of ¡°kernel machines¡± which are widely used in all areas of science and industry.

Michael Faraday Prize
Andrea Sella, professor of inorganic chemistry at University College London, for his excellent work in science communication.

Croonian Lecture
Nicholas Davies, professor of behavioural ecology at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, for his work on 바카라사이트 co-evolved responses of brood parasitic cuckoos and 바카라사이트ir hosts, 바카라사이트 process of co-evolution and adaptation and 바카라사이트 extraordinary biology of 바카라사이트se unusual birds.

Francis Crick Lecture (2014)
Rob Klose, principal investigator at 바카라사이트 Klose Laboratory, University of Oxford, for his research to understand how chromatin-based and epigenetic processes contribute to gene regulation.

Leeuwenhoek Lecture (2014)
Professor Jeffery Errington FMedSci FRS, for his seminal discoveries in relation to 바카라사이트 cell cycle and cell morphogenesis in bacteria which helped to found 바카라사이트 field of bacterial cell biology.

Bakerian Lecture
John Ellis, professor of 바카라사이트oretical physics at King¡¯s College London, for his groundbreaking contributions in 바카라사이트 physics of 바카라사이트 Higgs boson and his attempts at unifying 바카라사이트 fundamental forces of nature through his work at 바카라사이트 Large Hadron Collider.