BIOLOGIST

Mario Capecchi

1937 - Today

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Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Capecchi has received more than 330,773 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Mario Capecchi is the 141st most popular biologist (up from 153rd in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,320th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Biologist.

Mario Capecchi is most famous for his work in the field of gene targeting. He developed a technique for using homologous recombination to disrupt the function of a gene in mice.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mario Capecchi ranks 141 out of 1,097. Before him are Bert Sakmann, Gerald Edelman, Tomas Lindahl, John Ray, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Hamilton O. Smith. After him are William Carey, J. Michael Bishop, William Bateson, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jan Svatopluk Presl, and Walther Flemming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Mario Capecchi ranks 64. Before him are Anatoly Sobchak, Lionel Jospin, George Carlin, Song Hye-rim, Roald Hoffmann, and Robert Lucas Jr.. After him are Hélène Cixous, Sigmund Jähn, Tony Burton, George Takei, Tamara Press, and Cüneyt Arkın.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mario Capecchi ranks 1,229 out of 5,161. Before him are Lawrence of Brindisi (1559), Felice Beato (1832), Alessandro Costacurta (1966), Gianna Nannini (1954), Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan (1470), and Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313). After him are Marisa Pavan (1932), Gaetano Scirea (1953), Gino Severini (1883), Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (1822), Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (1318), and Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1500).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Mario Capecchi ranks 5. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), and Giovanni Sartori (1924). After him are Salvador Luria (1912), Renato Dulbecco (1914), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), and Odoardo Beccari (1843).

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