Ian Wilmut
1944
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2023
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Nottingham, University of Cambridge
occupation: embryologist, inventor
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award, Ernst Schering Prize, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Knight Bachelor, EMBO Membership, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
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Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was a British embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly. Wilmut was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours. He, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka jointly received the 2008 Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences for their work on cell differentiation in mammals. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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