2014年諾貝爾醫學或生理學獎授予英國萊斯特大學的Jeffreys教授

以表彰他發現了DNA指紋識別技術（DNA fingerprinting)

目前該技術被廣泛用於區別基因組內存在的變異和突變

Jeffreys教授簡介

Professor Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS (born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also 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 science and technology.

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• 20 March 1986 – Fellow of the Royal Society.

• 1989 – Midlander of the Year.

• 1991 – Appointed as a Royal Society Research Professor.

• 26 November 1992 – Honorary freeman of the City of Leicester.

• 1994 – Knighted.

• 1996 – Albert Einstein World Award of Science.

• 1998 – Australia Prize.

• 1999 – Stokes Medal

• 2004 – Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Leicester, where Jeffreys is a member of staff.

• 2004 – Royal Medal of the Royal Society.

• 2004 – Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.

• 2004 – Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.

• 2005 – Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research,jointly with Edwin Southern of the University of Oxford.

• 2005 – United States National Academy of Science, elected member.

• December 2006 – Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Liverpool.

• 2006 – Morgan StanleyGreat Briton Award for the Greatest Briton of the year, winner in the category of Science and Innovation, as well as the overall winner.

• 2006 – Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics.

• 8 March 2007 – Honorary degree from King's College London.

• 23 January 2008 – Graham Medal of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, awarded after he gave his lecture "DNA Profiling; Past, present and future", which was nominated as the Graham Lecture.

• 16 November 2009 – Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Huddersfield

• 14 April 2010 – Awarded Edinburgh Medal

• 21 February 2011 – Awarded ABRF Annual Award

• 2014 – Copley Medal