Ian Wilmut

<p>Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was an English <a href="/facts/Embryologist/4mvpSkhC">embryologist</a> and the chair of the <a href="/facts/Scottish_Centre_for_Regenerative_Medicine/uNbFkfVV">Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Edinburgh/L69HscH9">University of Edinburgh</a>. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first <a href="/facts/Cloned/Vb6SM4c7">cloned</a> a mammal from an adult <a href="/facts/Somatic_cell/Emn7gk9A">somatic cell</a>, a <a href="/facts/Finnish_Dorset/rA9KbUyl">Finnish Dorset</a> lamb named <a href="/facts/Dolly_(sheep)/P1kNJQeY">Dolly</a>.
</p><p>Wilmut was appointed <a href="/facts/OBE/HlY9buuN">OBE</a> in 1999 for services to embryo development and <a href="/facts/Knight_Bachelor/reg5TEqI">knighted</a> in the <a href="/facts/2008_New_Year_Honours/IGRe4MSY">2008 New Year Honours</a>. He, <a href="/facts/Keith_Campbell_(biologist)/qsoI6qKJ">Keith Campbell</a> and <a href="/facts/Shinya_Yamanaka/oqMTMwsc">Shinya Yamanaka</a> jointly received the 2008 <a href="/facts/Shaw_Prize/t2DX62Yg">Shaw Prize</a> for Medicine and Life Sciences for their work on <a href="/facts/Cell_differentiation/bCVqUG7w">cell differentiation</a> in mammals.
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Ian Wilmut open-in-new

Ian Wilmut