Edwin Southern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edwin Southern

English molecular biologist

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1938

Place of Birth: Burnley, England, United Kingdom

Profession: university teacher, biochemist, molecular biologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sir Edwin Mellor Southern (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
He is most widely known for the invention of the Southern blot, published in 1975 and now a common laboratory procedure.