Alec Jeffreys
(1950-)
Inventor of genetic fingerprinting
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Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes. He is a professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, and he became an honorary freeman of the City of Leicester on 26 November 1992. In 1994, he was knighted for services to genetics.
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19 January 1950 (age 75) Oxford, United Kingdom
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