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Ian Wilmut

1944-07-07 – 2023-09-10

Ian Wilmut at the 1997 Senate hearing on clonesCredit: Cathy Shaw

Life & Legacy

Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was 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. He, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka jointly received the 2008 Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences for their work on cell differentiation in mammals.

Occupation & Career

embryologist, inventor

Education

University of Nottingham; University of Cambridge

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Fellow of the Royal Society; Officer of the Order of the British Empire; Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award; Ernst Schering Prize; Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; Knight Bachelor; EMBO Membership; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine; Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize; Dolly the Sheep

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

EMBO Membership · Ernst Schering Prize · Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences · Fellow of the Royal Society · Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh · Knight Bachelor · Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award · Officer of the Order of the British Empire · Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize · Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine

Employer

The Roslin Institute · University of Edinburgh

Organizations & Memberships

European Molecular Biology Organization · German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina · National Academy of Sciences · Royal Society of Edinburgh · Royal Society of London