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Ian Wilmut
Sir Ian Wilmut
,
OBE
FRS
FMedSci
FRSE
(born 7 July 1944) is a British
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 granted an
OBE
in 1999 for services to embryo development. In December 2007 it was announced that he would be
knighted
in the
2008 New Year Honours
.
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