John Sulston
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John Sulston was a British biologist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in understanding how cells develop and die, which helped reveal fundamental processes of life itself. His research on the roundworm C. elegans and his leadership of the Human Genome Project made him one of the most influential scientists of the late 20th century.
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- Born
- 1942
- Died
- 2018
- Works
- 4
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- Common Thread
- El genoma y la división de clases
- The common thread
- El Hilo Comun de La Humanidad
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- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
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Sir John Edward Sulston CH FRS MAE (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.
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1942 births2018 deathsAcademics of the University of CambridgeAcademics of the University of ManchesterAlumni of Pembroke College, CambridgeBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish humanistsBritish Nobel laureatesCaenorhabditis elegansEnglish atheistsEnglish former ChristiansEnglish Nobel laureates