Edwin Southern, who is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist (the branch of biology that concerns the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells) was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and educated at Burnley Grammar School, then he continued as a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1962.
Sir Edwin Mellor Southern FRS FRSE (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Molecular biology /mlkjlr/ is the branch of biology that concerns the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including molecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms and interactions. Southern was born in Burnley, Lancashire and educated at Burnley Grammar School. He continued as a graduate student (then Demonstrator, 1963) in the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, where he was awarded his PhD in 1962. 
