BIOLOGIST

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 302,921 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ian Wilmut is the 187th most popular biologist (up from 330th in 2019), the 1,072nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,970th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.76

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  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ian Wilmut ranks 187 out of 1,097. Before him are George Robert Gray, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Peter Medawar, Stephen Jay Gould, Armand David, and Jeffrey C. Hall. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eva Ekeblad, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Daniel Nathans, Henry Walter Bates, and George Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ian Wilmut ranks 125. Before him are Helena Rojo, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jürgen Grabowski, Andris Bērziņš, Frank Oz, and John Densmore. After him are Ferenc Bene, Jane Hawking, Chris Patten, Roger Scruton, Agnes Baltsa, and Robert C. Merton. Among people deceased in 2023, Ian Wilmut ranks 110. Before him are Sixto Rodriguez, Josephine Chaplin, Sinéad O'Connor, Antonio Carbajal, John B. Goodenough, and Oleg Protopopov. After him are Lee Sun-kyun, Torben Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Ruth Fuchs, Ken Mattingly, and Ben Ferencz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Wilmut ranks 1,072 out of 8,785. Before him are Cozy Powell (1947), Nicko McBrain (1952), Dave Gahan (1962), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), W. O. Bentley (1888), and Bob Hope (1903). After him are Mungo Park (1771), Edmund Leighton (1852), William Henry Perkin (1838), Jane Hawking (1944), Chris Patten (1944), and Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Ian Wilmut ranks 27. Before him are William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), and George Robert Gray (1808). After him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), Charles Bell (1774), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), and Thomas Browne (1605).

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