A Canadian Biochemist

 
This week's citation classic on The Evilutionary Biologist is really a classic. It's the Journal of Biological Chemistry paper on site-directed mutagenesis from Michael Smith's lab at the University of British Columbia.

Michael Smith, who died in 2000, won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his work on site-directed mutagenesis.

A couple of weeks ago I pooked fun at John Dennehy's selection of a Richard Dawkins paper for his citation classic series [It Happens to All of Us Eventually]. This week John writes,

Any connection between a recent Sandwalk post, the fact that Smith is Canadian and that this article is biochemical in bent is purely coincidental.

I think we can all appreciate that this is just a coincidence. We expect you to recognize all outstanding Canadian biochemists on the grounds that they are truly excellent scientists and not just because you are pandering to your neighbors up north.¹

I'll assume that the last citation classic was just a temporary moment of insanity.

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1. Although a little pandering never hurt anyone. You never know when you might have to emigrate.