John Sulston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Sulston

British biologist and Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1942

Place of Birth: Fulmer, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-Mar-2018

Profession: physician, biologist, geneticist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz.
He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.