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Also Known As Sir Ian Wilmut
Born July 7, 1944 • England
Died September 10, 2023 (aged 79)
Subjects Of Study clone • genetic engineering • nuclear transfer • pharming • cryopreservation • Frostie

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C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
American scientist
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
John Gurdon
John Gurdon
British biologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
St. George Jackson Mivart
St. George Jackson Mivart
British biologist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Joseph Needham
British biochemist
Reginald Punnett
British geneticist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist

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