Talk:Alec Jeffreys

In general whilst Alec Jefferies founded DNA fingerprinting, his work is short lived, I predict he will lose capacity to carry on with the work. Furthermore I can also predict that whilst his work is encouraging in police work, the scope of identification will become limited as the emergence of a new society replaces the old. The emergence of the new society will require every person to give there DNA sample and are we willing to do this? Well count me in! But there will always be others who are not so willing. The fact that the police have a database which by the way is not cross referenced world wide it is limited in what it can achieve by way of capacity on the electrophoresis table we can only match it to say 1 in 20000 or 1 in 40000 1 in 60000 or 1 in 80000 as opposed to 1 in 99 billion being presented still good odds but not good enough.

Ciao — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.137.6.251 (talk) 22:08, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Page title
Should this page be moved to "Sir Alec Jeffreys" in recognition of his knighthood? --Red Su ns et    19:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Without looking it up, I understand that it can be, but it is usually not moved. I can not quote one where sir is in the name of the page. Usually, the notability of the person is shown by the text, and the introduction should contain key points like this. Snowman (talk) 19:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The naming convention is not to include "Sir" in the article name Naming_conventions_%28names_and_titles%29 number 5. Thincat (talk) 16:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for providing the link to wiki MOS page, which is very clear. Sir is not included in page names. Snowman (talk) 20:37, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't the first line now read "Professor Sir Alec John Jeffreys..."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.121.218.220 (talk) 15:13, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Question?
Is this man a genius or what? Discovering DNA at age 34? Amazing. Why he hasn't or wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize is beyond me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.45.23 (talk) 04:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Generally, biologists do their best work in their 30s, and in mathematical disciplines it is younger, in their 20s. Snowman (talk) 15:46, 18 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, it seems Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA at the age of 25 (see DNA) and James Watson was 25 when he discovered the structure of DNA (along with an aging 37 year old Francis Crick). Thincat (talk) 16:23, 18 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Stay tuned for next week's Nobel Prizes ... Daen (talk) 01:16, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * But which Nobel Prize could he be given? 109.159.127.187 (talk) 00:51, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * He didn’t discover DNA at age 34! Read the text again.  Hahaha! 186.28.1.251 (talk) 21:16, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Awards and recognition section
The large number of wikilinks and dates in this section makes it rather messy-looking and a little tricky to take in. Would a list format be tidier and easier to appreciate? --Red Su ns et    14:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I am pleased that you have raised that point. I would not go as far as to say that it is messy, but while I have been checking and adding to it, I thought that it would be easier to read in a list.  It is probably ready for changing to a list now. Snowman (talk) 14:58, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice job Snowman, that's so much clearer now! --Red Su ns et    18:43, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

B-Class status
As a result of recent hard work in developing this article, I've rated it as B-Class --Red Su ns et    20:32, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

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