2003 – Smithies received the Wolf Prize in Medicine, the third most prestigious award in medicine, along with Mario Capecchi and Ralph L. Brinster.
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Mintz has received numerous awards and honors including the first Genetics Society of America Medal (1981) and the first March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology shared with Ralph L. Brinster (1996).
His area of responsibility included Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 and began to write for the entertainment pages of the Toronto Star a year later.