Hamilton's Influence On Gene Cloning

Hamilton O. Smith is an ordinary man, that made one of the most extraordinary discoveries of his generation.
Hamilton was always surrounded by great scientist. He lived in a small community of university professors, great teachers from his university prep school, and of course his parent's professors at the local university. He was brought up to thrive in an academic environment. He learned French by the age of eleven and mastered the piano by the time he was fifteen. His friends helped him on his journey by giving him a solid understanding of physics and algebra.
He was not only academically inclined. He played basketball and football but there was no doubt that he would go into a STEM field.
When Hamilton graduated high school he did not
In 1968 he made a revolutionary discoverie.
He discovered the type II restriction enzyme, witch had major impacts in 2 fields of science. Gene cloning, and DNA fragmentation. Gene cloning is what it sounds like; cloning genes. He essentially made a discovery that allowed the first gene to be cloned. The second field that was impacted by this discovery was DNA fragmentation. DNA fragmentation is most commonly used in testing men's sperm to see how fertile they are. I would say that DNA fragmentation is the biggest discovery he made out of the two I listed. One reason for this is that it has allowed us to do more research into what causes men to have lower sperm counts, and lose the ability to have children at all.
He discovered this because of a mixture of luck and knowledge. Hamilton was of course very skilled and knowledgeable in his field. But he had conducted hundreds of experiments and it just so happened that this one experiment that he didn't even execute properly put his name in textbooks.
I would say that Hamilton was an explorer. He was looking into completely new things. There really was no one else that got as far as he did. He was exploring completely new tatorie. He was effectively the Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk of his field at the
After they discovered this enzyme and the process research centers and hospitals started using his discoverie to start attempting to clone the first creatures, and testing men's sperm.
After his discoverie he continued to do research at Johns hopkins and still works there today at the age of 86.
I think that his life was better in the long run. He had achieved his goal of helping to further science. His discoverie helped hundreds of thousands of people if not millions. All of the sources that I have read do not really say anything about how he felt after his discoverie. So I can only assume that he liked the fact that he helped hundreds of thousands of people and achieved his goal. But you never really know how people feel about how they ended up doing. I guess you could say that his life was better because he got a lot of good press for his discoverie, as well as a good amount of money and a nobel prize.
I honestly do not think I learned anything to really progress me on my Hero’s Journey. I just like accumulating knowledge for the sake of knowing things. So I guess it made me more aware of a pretty cool guy in STEM, and taught me a lot about cloning, and testing