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Sir Ian Wilmut was a British embryologist and inventor, born 7 July 1944 in Hampton Lucy. He was educated at the University of Nottingham and the University of Cambridge, and worked in genetics, embryology and genetic engineering as an employee of the University of Edinburgh and The Roslin Institute, residing in Edinburgh. His notable work was Dolly the Sheep.
Wilmut was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He received the Ernst Schering Prize and was a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He had Parkinson's disease and color blindness, and died of natural causes on 10 September 2023.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Ponowny akt stworzenia
- After Dolly
- After Dolly
- Principles of Cloning
- The second creation
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1944
- Active to
- 2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,547x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,567x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
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Quotes
- “It is quite likely that it is possible, yes. But what we've said all along -- speaking for both the (Roslin) Institute and the PPL staff - is that we would find it ethically unacceptable to think of doing that. We can't think of a reason to do it. If there was a reason to copy a human being, we would do it, but there isn't.”
- “Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.”
- “I'd remind you that in these experiments so far, about one quarter of the lambs that were born alive died within a few days because they hadn't completed normal development. Now, what may be being suggested here is that copies of children would be being produced, and some of those would die soon after birth. So I think that for a clinician to be suggesting doing that is a quite appalling and sad thing for him to be suggesting.”
- “I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.”
- “Is this sort of thing which has been thought about beneficial? So that if you're asking the question, for example, "Is it appropriate to think of making a copy of a person?" You have to ask not only, "What is the benefit to the people who are asking for this to be done?" But also, "What's the impact on the child that's going to be produced?" And that last bit I think often gets missed out.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1944-07-07 ) 7 July 1944, Hampton Lucy , Warwickshire, England
- Died
- 10 September 2023 (2023-09-10) (aged 79)
- Education
- University of Nottingham ( BSc ) Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD)
- Known for
- Cloning Dolly the sheep
- Awards
- OBE (1999) Ernst Schering Prize (2002) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2005) Shaw Prize in Life science and medicine (2008) Knight Bachelor (2008)
- Fields
- Embryologist
- Institutions
- Roslin Institute University of Edinburgh
- Thesis
- The preservation of boar semen (1971)
- Doctoral advisor
- Christopher Polge
- Website
- crm .ed .ac .uk /research /group /redirecting-cell-fate
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Hampton Lucy
- Occupation
- inventor
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- The Roslin Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Dolly the Sheep
- Field of work
- genetic engineering
- Residence
- Edinburgh
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- date of birth
- 1944-07-07
- date of death
- 2023-09-10
- name in native language
- Ian Wilmut
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- medical condition
- color blindness
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ian Wilmut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.