Alec Jeffreys

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alec Jeffreys
Occupation	Geneticist
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1950(1950-01-09)
Age	74
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Alec Jeffreys Biography

Alec Jeffreys is one of the most popular and richest Geneticist who was born on January 9, 1950 in England, England, United Kingdom. Geneticist who contributed to the field of forensic science by developing advanced DNA profiling and fingerprinting methods.

He and fellow Englishman Paul Nurse both had acclaimed careers as geneticists.

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 met his future wife, Sue Miles, in a youth club in the centre of Luton, Bedfordshire, before he became a university student, and they married on 28 August 1971. Jeffreys has one brother and one sister; he and his wife have two daughters, born in 1979 and 1983.

He and his two siblings grew up in Oxford and Luton, England. He married Susan Miles in 1971.

Alec Jeffreys Net Worth

Alec Jeffreys is one of the richest Geneticist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alec Jeffreys 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied biochemistry at Merton College, Oxford and subsequently accepted a research fellowship at the University of Amsterdam.

He taught genetics courses at the University of Leicester.

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and 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 genetics.

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Jeffreys’s DNA method was first put to use in 1985 when he was asked to help in a disputed immigration case to confirm the identity of a British boy whose family was originally from Ghana. The case was resolved when the DNA results proved that the boy was closely related to the other members of the family, and Jeffreys saw the relief in the mother’s face when she heard the results. DNA fingerprinting was first used in a police forensic test to identify the killer of two teenagers, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, who had been raped and murdered in Narborough, Leicestershire, in 1983 and 1986 respectively. Colin Pitchfork was identified and convicted of their murders after samples taken from him matched semen samples taken from the two dead girls. This turned out to be a specifically important identification; British authorities believe that without it an innocent man would have inevitably been convicted. Not only did Jeffreys’s work in this case prove who the real killer was, but it exonerated Richard Buckland, initially a prime suspect, who likely would have spent his life in prison otherwise. The story behind the investigations is told in Joseph Wambaugh’s 1989 best selling book The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders and the murders and subsequent solving of the crimes was featured in Episode 1 of the first season of the 1996 American TV series Medical Detectives in which Jeffreys himself also appears. A further television mini-series based on these events was released in 2015, Code of a Killer. In 1992, Jeffreys’s methods were used to confirm the identity for German prosecutors of the Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, who had died in 1979, by comparing DNA obtained from a femur bone of his exhumed skeleton, with DNA from his mother and son, in a similar way to paternity testing.

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Alec Ranked on the list of most popular Geneticist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alec Jeffreys celebrates birthday on January 9 of every year.

Who is the father of DNA fingerprinting in world?

In 1984, Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting in a laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester.

What did Sir Alec Jeffreys discover?

He was one of the first to discover inherited variation in human DNA , then went on to invent DNA fingerprinting, showing how it can be used to resolve issues of identity and kinship and creating the field of forensic DNA.

Who discovered forensic DNA analysis?

DNA forensics was first reported in 1984 by Dr. Alec Jefferys at the University of Leicester when he realized that DNA contained sequences that continued to repeat next to each other. He also figured out that these sequences that were repeated were different for each individual. After this discovery Dr.

Why did Alec Jeffreys invent DNA fingerprinting?

Jeffreys developed the technique in the 1980s while at the University of Leicester in Leicester, UK. Jeffreys´s technique had immediate applications. In forensic science, DNA fingerprinting enabled police to identify suspects of crimes based on their genetic identities.

Who is the father of RNA?

Leslie Orgel , 80; chemist was father of the RNA world theory of the origin of life.