Ian Wilmut, English-Scottish embryologist and academic (died 2023)

Ian Wilmut

British embryologist (1944–2023)

Sir Ian Wilmut 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.