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John Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston 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 at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation a…
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science · British biologist and academic (1942–2018) · geneticist · physician · molecular biologist · chemist · biologist · also John Sulston, Sir John Edward Sulston, John Edward Sulston, J.E. Sulston, John E. Sulston, Sulston
Born 27 March 1942 · Died 6 March 2018 · Q271532
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2026· 2 entries
“He’s spent 30 years of his life studying the 22 cells of a worm’s vulva!”
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2018· 6 entries
pharmaphorum: Genomics pioneer Sir John Sulston dies
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NDTV: John Sulston, Nobel-Winning Scientist Who Helped Decode Human Genome, Dies At 75
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Yahoo News UK: Sir John Sulston, scientist who led human genome breakthrough, dies
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Yahoo: John Sulston, who decoded the human genome, dies at 75
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Died 2018-03-06.
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Sulston died on 6 March 2018 of stomach cancer, aged 75 years.
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of Honour (2017).
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2013· 1 entry
Sulston was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Rutherford Memorial Lecture, which he gave on the subject of population pressure
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2012· 1 entry
Sulston forfeited £15,000 of the £20,000 pledged in June 2012, as Assange had entered the embassy of Ecuador to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts.
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2011· 1 entry
BBC: John Sulston
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2006· 1 entry
Was awarded the George Dawson Prize in Genetics by Trinity College Dublin
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2004· 1 entry
Sulston received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2003· 2 entries
Won Baly Medal (2003).
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Was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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2002· 9 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.
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The Guardian: John Sulston interview: one man and his worm
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Awarded Annual Review Prize Lecture (2002).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (2002).
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Awarded Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (2002).
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Awarded Dan David Prize (2002).
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With his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Won the Dan David Prize and the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award
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2001· 4 entries
Won Edinburgh Medal (2001).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2001).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2001).
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Sulston gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on The Secrets of Life
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded George W. Beadle Award (2000).
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After the 'working draft' of the human genome sequence was completed, Sulston retired from directing the Sanger Centre
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1998· 1 entry
The whole genome sequence was published in collaboration with the Genome Institute at Washington University in St
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Rosenstiel Award (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Won Darwin Medal (1996).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded W. Alden Spencer Award (1986).
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1983· 1 entry
Sulston has analysed and described the total cell lineage of the nematode making it the first organism for which the origin of every cell is exactly known
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1967· 1 entry
And their second, Adrian, later in England
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1966· 2 entries
Studied at Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (1966).
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Just before they left for US for postdoctoral research
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1963· 2 entries
With a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry)
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Studied at Pembroke College, Bachelor of Arts (1963).
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-03-27.
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