Кім Насмит: Ағылшын биохимигі және генетигінің өмірбаяны

British biochemist

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| spouse = Anna Dowson on 1982 is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and former head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. He is best known for his work on the segregation of chromosomes during cell division.

Nasmyth was born in London in 1952 of James Ashley (Jan) Nasmyth and Jenny Hughes. His father Jan was doubly descended from King Charles II and founder of the billion dollar publishing company Argus Media. He attended Eton College, Berkshire, then the University of York, where he studied Biology. and his PhD thesis focused on the control of DNA replication in fission yeast. In Mitchison's lab he made substantial contributions to the study of the cell cycle in fission yeast isolating and characterising cell cycle mutants and the first identification of a gene product (DNA ligase) in these mutants.

Nasmyth married Anna Dowson, daughter of Sir Philip Dowson, in 1982 and has two daughters. He enjoys skiing and climbing, He also co owns a vineyard in the south of France. Nasmyth held a large number of shares in his fathers billion dollar company Argus Media until its purchase by General Atlantic in 2016. In 2014 he was appointed director of Badger Lane Management company. During his time in Vienna, Nasmyth became Austrian citizen.