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Martin Evans

1941 - Today

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Sir Martin John Evans FLSW (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice. In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans. He won a major scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge at a time when advances in genetics were occurring there and became interested in biology and biochemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Evans is the 139th most popular biologist (up from 153rd in 2019), the 807th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 873rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Evans ranks 139 out of 1,097. Before him are Jan Swammerdam, William Jackson Hooker, Lynn Margulis, Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and Oliver Smithies. After him are Gerald Edelman, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Edward B. Lewis, Aimé Bonpland, Daniel Nathans, and Charles Scott Sherrington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Martin Evans ranks 73. Before him are Jürgen Prochnow, Karl Barry Sharpless, Ivica Osim, Pete Best, Jacques Perrin, and Igor Smirnov. After him are Gheorghe Zamfir, Chick Corea, Pierre Agostini, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Gérson, and Ray Tomlinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Evans ranks 807 out of 8,785. Before him are Julian Barnes (1946), Annie Lennox (1954), Michael Powell (1905), Charles Laughton (1899), Dua Lipa (1995), and Oliver Smithies (1925). After him are Ian Paice (1948), Ronald Fisher (1890), Wentworth Miller (1972), Stephen Graham (1973), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), and Richard Francis Burton (1821).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Martin Evans ranks 27. Before him are William John Swainson (1789), James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), William Jackson Hooker (1785), and Oliver Smithies (1925). After him are Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Henry Walter Bates (1825), William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), and George Robert Gray (1808).

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