Ian Wilmut | |
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Born | Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England | 7 July 1944
Died | 10 September 2023 | (aged 79)
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Known for | Dolly the sheep |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Embryologist |
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Thesis | The preservation of boar semen (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Christopher Polge |
Website | crm |
Sir Ian Wilmut OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE[2][1][8] (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was a British embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine[9] at the University of Edinburgh.[10] 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.[11][12]
Wilmut was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development[13] and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.[14] 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.[7]
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