Which famous people have you outlived?

John Sulston

British biologist

Died when: 75 years 344 days (911 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

John Sulston

Sir John Edward Sulston CH FRS MAE (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz.

He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.


Related People

James Edward Smith
British biologist
William John Swainson
British biologist
Ernest Starling
British biologist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License