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    Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling...
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  • British police drama television series which tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective...
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    Forensic DNA analysis was first used in 1984. It was developed by Sir Alec Jeffreys, who realized that variation in the genetic sequence could be used to...
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    33-(348) Dame Evelyn Glennie CH, DBE Musician 2016 59 34-(349) Sir Alec Jeffreys CH, FRS, MAE Geneticist 2016 74 35-(353) Sir Mark Elder CH, CBE Conductor...
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    Rockefeller University in the United States in 1981. British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys independently developed a process for DNA profiling in 1985 while working...
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    second season of The Village in Derbyshire. Later that year, Simm played Alec Jeffreys, the man who discovered DNA fingerprinting, in Code of a Killer, a two-part...
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    palm and ear prints could also assist in the identification process. Alec Jeffreys was the first forensic scientist to use DNA analysis for the purpose...
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  • Jeffreys is a surname that may refer to the following notable people: Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting...
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    people. DNA profiling was developed in 1984 by British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys, and first used in forensic science to convict Colin Pitchfork in the...
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    Discs with Alec Jeffreys". Desert Island Discs. 2007-12-09. BBC. Radio 4. Newton G (2004-02-04). "Discovering DNA fingerprinting: Sir Alec Jeffreys describes...
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  • cricketer Alec Jason (1911–2000), English actor Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British geneticist Alec Jenkins (born 1987), Welsh rugby union player Alec John...
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    at Carr Gate, Wakefield at Junction 41 of the M1 motorway. The Sir Alec Jeffreys Building in the Calder Park Business Estate (at Junction 39 of the M1...
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    and "in tracing migration patterns by using genetics." Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, was on her PhD supervisory panel...
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  • reaction), an automated method for rapidly copying sequences of DNA. 1984 – Alec Jeffreys devised a genetic fingerprinting method. 1985 – Harry Kroto, J.R. Heath...
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  • bacteria and Drosophila melanogaster. 1985: Alec Jeffreys announced DNA fingerprinting method. Jeffreys was studying DNA variation and the evolution...
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  • Director since 1994 of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS, discoverer of DNA fingerprinting (last two years at the comprehensive)...
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    Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys has revolutionized the field of forensic science and methods of defining family relationships." Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys was awarded...
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    fingerprinting were invented and developed at Leicester in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys. It also houses Europe's biggest academic centre for space research...
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  • Dawn Ashworth is killed three years later. They enlist the help of Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a molecular biologist who uses his breakthrough technique of genetic...
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  • 8000X, is created by Motorola. 1984: DNA profiling is pioneered by Alec Jeffreys. 1989: Karlheinz Brandenburg would publish the audio compression algorithms...
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  • Scribner 2003 Marc Feldmann, Ravinder N. Maini 2004 Charles Kelman 2005 Alec Jeffreys, Edwin Southern 2006 Aaron T. Beck 2007 Alain Carpentier, Albert Starr...
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    to victim Catherine Eddowes, but experts – including Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of genetic fingerprinting – dismissed the DNA claims about...
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  • and the creation of DNA profiling. It starred John Simm as researcher Alec Jeffreys and David Threlfall as David Baker, the lead police detective. Pitchfork...
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    singer John Hegley, poet Hilda Hewlett, UK's first licensed woman pilot Alec Jeffreys, geneticist Sarfraz Manzoor, author and columnist, The Guardian Eric...
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    (1992) Ali Javan (1993) Sherwood Rowland (1994) Herbert H. Jasper (1995) Alec Jeffreys (1996) Jean-Marie Ghuysen (1997) Charles R. Goldman (1998) Robert Weinberg...
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    Hoare, chemist George Radda, economist Catherine Tucker, geneticist Alec Jeffreys and cryptographer Artur Ekert. Frederick Soddy, awarded the Nobel Prize...
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  • DNA fingerprints are discovered by Alec Jeffreys (born 1950). 1987: Process of DNA profiling developed by Alec Jeffreys (born 1950). 1991: Iris recognition...
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    forensic evidence, such as in the O. J. Simpson murder case. By 1989 Alec Jeffreys, who had earlier developed and applied the first DNA Fingerprinting...
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  • by ICI having licensed the DNA Fingerprinting technology developed Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester and received a Queen's Award for Technological...
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  • efforts to conduct objective, scientific investigations. Professor Alec Jeffreys, the forensic scientist who invented DNA fingerprinting in 1984, initially...
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