Ian Wilmut, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ian Wilmut

embryologist

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1944

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: inventor, embryologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE (born 7 July 1944) is an English embryologist and 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.
He was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.