What is Alec Jeffreys?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Sir Alec Jeffreys |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CH|FRS}} |image = Alec Jeffreys.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|1|9|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Oxford]], [[Oxfordshire]], England |nationality = British |spouse = {{marriage|Susan Miles|1971}} |death_date = |death_place = | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.460797 | thesis_title = Studies on the mitochondria of cultured mammalian cells | thesis_year = 1975 | doctoral_students = | influenced = Turi King<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art467408-The-DNA-of-a-King-Dr-Turi-King-on-genome-sequencing-Richard-III|title=The DNA of a King: Dr Turi King on the genome sequencing of Richard III - Culture24|website=www.culture24.org.uk|access-date=2018-09-16|archive-date=2018-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910204001/http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art467408-The-DNA-of-a-King-Dr-Turi-King-on-genome-sequencing-Richard-III|url-status=dead}}</ref> |field = [[Genetics]] |work_institutions = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Amsterdam]] * [[University of Leicester]]}} | education = Luton Sixth Form College |alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]] (BA, DPhil) |known_for = [[Genetic fingerprinting]] |prizes = {{Plainlist| * [[Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society|Bicentenary Medal]] (1987) * [[Colworth Medal]] (1987)<ref>{{Cite journal |pmid=2887471 |year=1987 |last1=Jeffreys |first1=Alec John |title=Highly variable minisatellites and DNA fingerprints |journal=Biochemical Society Transactions |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=309–17 |doi=10.1042/bst0150309|url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/10075976 }}</ref> * [[Albert Einstein World Award of Science]] (1996) * [[Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research|Lasker award]] (2005)