Lloyd M. Smith (1954) is a professor of chemistry and the founder of Third Wave Technologies.
His Research Career
Smith spent his formative years in Berkeley, California, where his parents worked as professors of physics and mathematics. He majored in Biochemistry at the University of California in 1976, performing research with Wayne Hubbell, and subsequently obtained his PhD from Stanford University for his work on membrane diffusion with Harden M. McConnell.
Smith has authored or co-authored over 250 papers. He holds over 30 U.S. patents for his inventions in the field of biochemistry.He held the John D. MacArthur Chair in Chemistry at Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently the W. L. Hubbell Professor of Chemistry there.
He was listed as one of the Top 100 Innovators by Science Digest, has won a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and has received an Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award. His work on automated DNA sequencing won the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award in 1997.
Presidential Young Investigator Award
Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award
Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award in 1997
