# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-southern
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:57:31.667Z

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name: "Edwin Southern"
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description: "Sir Edwin Mellor Southern 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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump