Alec Jeffreys

Awards

1. 2005

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For development of two powerful technologies— Southern hybridization and DNA finger-printing — that together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.

2. 2008

   Millennium Technology Prize

   Biology

   For the DNA fingerprinting technique, which revolutionized forensic science and methods of defining family relationships.