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Mario Capecchi

1937 - Today

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Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Capecchi is the 164th most popular biologist (down from 141st in 2019), the 1,151st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,229th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Biologist.

Mario Capecchi is most famous for his work in the field of gene targeting. He developed a technique for using homologous recombination to disrupt the function of a gene in mice.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mario Capecchi ranks 164 out of 1,097. Before him are Susumu Tonegawa, Nettie Stevens, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Salvador Luria, George Davis Snell, and Renato Dulbecco. After him are Henry Walter Bates, Louis Agassiz, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Leland H. Hartwell, William Bateson, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Mario Capecchi ranks 62. Before him are Abu Nidal, Vladimir Arnold, Sigmund Jähn, Hélène Cixous, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and Ferdinand Piëch. After him are Tsukasa Hosaka, Fernando de la Rúa, Lionel Jospin, Andrei Konchalovsky, Valentyn Sylvestrov, and Thomas Pynchon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mario Capecchi ranks 1,151 out of 5,161. Before him are Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812), Mina (1940), Salvador Luria (1912), Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850), Johann Maria Farina (1685), and Renato Dulbecco (1914). After him are Ettore Scola (1931), Eleonora Gonzaga (1598), Antonio Caldara (1670), Francesco Landini (1325), Constantius Gallus (325), and Sebastian Cabot (1484).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Mario Capecchi ranks 6. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), Salvador Luria (1912), and Renato Dulbecco (1914). After him are Giovanni Sartori (1924), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Odoardo Beccari (1843), Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), and Giuseppe Acerbi (1773).

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