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Ian Wilmut

1944 - 2023

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Wilmut has received more than 291,600 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Ian Wilmut is the 331st most popular biologist (down from 279th in 2019), the 1,975th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,689th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ian Wilmut ranks 331 out of 841Before him are Nehemiah Grew, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Philibert Commerson, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Carl Ludwig Blume, and Alexander von Nordmann. After him are François-Alphonse Forel, Takenoshin Nakai, Emil Christian Hansen, Karl Koch, John Stevens Henslow, and John Needham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ian Wilmut ranks 229Before him are Craig T. Nelson, Kay Parker, Odd Nerdrum, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Ivica Račan, and Brian Weiss. After him are Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Gregory Jarvis, Jill Clayburgh, Yury Romanenko, Robert Hanssen, and Donald Tsang. Among people deceased in 2023, Ian Wilmut ranks 124Before him are Hans Albert, Roberto Dinamite, Adolf Scherer, Andrés García, Henri Konan Bédié, and Arnaldo Forlani. After him are Martin Walser, Carla Bley, Chuck Feeney, Tom Sizemore, Robert Hanssen, and Matteo Messina Denaro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Wilmut ranks 1,975 out of 7,765Before him are Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Louisa Adams (1775), Harold Laski (1893), Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), and Caratacus (15). After him are Mother Shipton (1488), Margaret of England (1240), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Anthony Asquith (1902), James Wolfe (1727), and Leonard Woolf (1880).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Ian Wilmut ranks 51Before him are Richard Henderson (1945), George Robert Gray (1808), Patrick Geddes (1854), Robert Fortune (1812), Roderick Murchison (1792), and Nehemiah Grew (1641). After him are John Stevens Henslow (1796), John Needham (1713), John Sulston (1942), William Speirs Bruce (1867), John Maynard Smith (1920), and Paul Nurse (1949).