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Ian Wilmut
1944 Jul, 7

Ian Wilmut

Ian Wilmut, English-Scottish embryologist and academic
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.

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  • 10 Apr

    Auschwitz concentration camp

    Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
  • 13 Apr

    Soviet Union

    Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
  • 26 Jun

    RAF

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  • 26 Aug

    Charles de Gaulle

    World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
  • 31 Dec

    Nazi Germany

    World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.