Ian Wilmut

Professor
Sir Ian Wilmut
OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE
Born	7 July 1944; Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England
Died	10 September 2023 (aged 79)
Education	University of Nottingham (BSc); Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Dolly the sheep
Awards	OBE (1999); Ernst Schering Prize (2002); Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2005); Shaw Prize in Life science and medicine (2008); Knight Bachelor (2008);
	Scientific career
Fields	Embryologist
Institutions	Roslin Institute; University of Edinburgh;
Thesis	The preservation of boar semen (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Christopher Polge
Website	crm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/redirecting-cell-fate

Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was a British embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.

Wilmut was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours. He, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka jointly received the 2008 Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences for their work on cell differentiation in mammals.

Professor Sir Ian Wilmut OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE

Born	(1944-07-07)7 July 1944 Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England
Died	10 September 2023(2023-09-10) (aged 79)
Education	University of Nottingham (BSc) Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Dolly the sheep
Awards	OBE (1999) Ernst Schering Prize (2002) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2005) Shaw Prize in Life science and medicine (2008) Knight Bachelor (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Embryologist
Institutions	Roslin Institute University of Edinburgh
Thesis	The preservation of boar semen (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Christopher Polge

Website	crm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/redirecting-cell-fate