Nobel Prize Winner Smithies To Discuss His Career in Talk at UNC

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Nobel Prize winner Oliver Smithies will share experiences from his life in a public presentation on April 9 at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Smithies, a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will speak at 7 p.m. at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. His talk is titled “Reflections on a Lifetime of Science.”

Smithies has spent decades studying genomics and embryonic stem cells.

The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The planetarium is located at 250 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.