* BORN IN - 31ST AUGUST 1931
* HE WAS AN AMERICAN MICROBIOLOGIST.
* HE GOT NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY IN 1978.
* IN 1970 SMITH ALONG WITH KENT W WILCOX DISCOVERED THE FIRST TYPE 2 RESTRICTION ENZYME ( KNOWN AS HINDILL)
* SMITH WITH J CRAIG VENTRE INSTITUTE CREATING A PARTIALLY SYNTHETIC BACTERIUM CALLED - MYCOPLASMA BACTERIUM
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