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Ian Wilmut
Wilmut, Ian (1944-) is a British embryologist and genetic engineer who led the team that created a cloned sheep in 1996.
SCOTTISH BIOLOGISTS
Scottish biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, Scottish biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
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D\'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonThompson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1860-1948) was a Scottish zoologist who combined natural history and mathematics to develop a new approach to evolution and the growth of living things. See more »
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Ian Wilmut
Wilmut, Ian (1944-) is a British embryologist and genetic engineer who led the team that created a cloned sheep in 1996. See more »
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John James Rickard Macleod
Macleod, John James Rickard (1876-1935) was a Scottish physiologist who shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Fredrick Grant Banting for their discovery of insulin in 1922. See more »
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Lord Boyd Orr
Boyd Orr, Lord (1880-1971), a Scottish nutritional physiologist, devoted nearly four decades to the field of nutrition. See more »
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Robert Brown
Brown, Robert (1773-1858), a Scottish botanist, is best known for describing the agitation of microscopic particles suspended in a liquid or gas, a movement that is now called Brownian motion. See more »
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