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|field = Genetics |work_institutions = |alma_mater = University of Oxford (BA, PhD) |known_for = Inventor of genetic fingerprinting |prizes = |module = }} 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 worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.〔(DNA pioneer's 'eureka' moment ) BBC. Retrieved 14 October 2011〕〔 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.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www4.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/archive/graduate_detail/317 )〕〔〔〔(BBC Leicester – Jeffreys reflects on DNA finding )〕 ==Education and Early life== Jeffreys was born into a middle-class family in Oxford, where he spent the first six years of his life until 1956, when the family moved to Luton, Bedfordshire. He attributes his curiosity and inventiveness to having been gained from his father, as well as his paternal grandfather, who held a number of patents.〔 When he was eight, his father gave him a chemistry set, which he enhanced over the next few years with extra chemicals, even including a small bottle of sulphuric acid.〔 He says he liked making small explosions, but an accidental splash of the sulphuric acid caused a burn, which left a permanent scar on his chin (now under his beard).〔 His father also bought him a Victorian-era brass microscope,〔 which he used to examine biological specimens.〔 At about 12, he made a small dissecting kit (including a scalpel, crafted from a flattened pin) which he used to dissect a bumblebee, but he got into trouble with his parents when he progressed to dissecting a larger specimen. One Sunday morning he found a dead cat on the road while doing his paper round and took it home in his bag. He relates that he started to dissect it on the dining room table before Sunday lunch, causing a foul smell throughout the house after he ruptured its intestines.〔 Jeffreys was a pupil at Luton Grammar School and then Luton Sixth Form College. He won a scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford on a four-year course, where he graduated in 1972 with first-class honours in biochemistry.〔 Jeffreys completed his doctorate,or DPhil as it is known at Oxford, on the mitochondria of cultured mammalian cells, as a postgraduate student at the Genetics Laboratory at the University of Oxford. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alec Jeffreys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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