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Biography of Ian WilmutName: Ian WilmutBirth Date: July 7, 1944 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Hampton Lucey, England Nationality: British Gender: Male Occupations: embryologist Ian Wilmut Ian Wilmut (born 1944) was a quiet unassuming British embryologist who worked to improve the productivity of farm animals. By February 1997, he had shocked the scientific community by successfully cloning the first mammal from the DNA of an adult. By doing so, Wilmut had placed himself at the center of an ethical controversy regarding the issue of cloning.Ian Wilmut was born in Hampton Lucey, England, near Warwick on July 7, 1944. His father, David Wilmut, was a math teacher. Wilmut described himself as a pretty average student. He chose to study farming at the University of Nottingham because he wanted to work outdoors. There he discovered that he had no aptitude for the business aspect of commercial farming. Instead, he became interested in research.At Darwin College, Cambridge University, Wilmut met researcher Chris Porge who had discovered how to freeze cells in 1949. Wilmut became fascinated with the research. His father had a …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…in 1997 he cloned a sheep he dubbed Polly. This time the animal was created from fetal skin cells that had been genetically altered to contain a human gene. Wilmut has also been editor of the Journal of Reproduction Fertility since 1993. Further Reading Newsmakers 1997, Issue 4, Gale Group, 1997.American Enterprise, September-October, 1998, pp. 57-58.Irish Times, January 15, 2000.Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1997.Maclean's March 10, 1997, pp. 54-58.Nation, March 24, 1997, pp. 4-5.New York Times, February 24, 1997.Scotsman, December 24, 1997; February 18, 1998; May 17, 1999; January 20, 1999; January 18, 2000.Time, March 10, 1997, p. 62-64; December 29, 1997, pp. 98-99; March 2, 1998, p. 65; March 29, 1999, p. 176.UNESCO Courier, September, 1999, p. 32-33.U.S. News and World Report, March 10, 1997, pp. 59-63.Roslin Institute, About Roslin Institute, "Prof Ian Wilmut," at: http://www.roslin.ac.uk/about/staff/iwilmut.html (March 18, 2002).ThinkQuest, Profiles, "Ian Wilmut," at: http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/light/details/profiles/wilmut.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0318USNews.com, U.S. News Briefings, "Ian Wilmut," at: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/briefings/bio/wilmut1101.htm (March 18, 2002). |