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John Sulston

Scientist · born March 27, 1942 · died 2018

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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.

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  1. ~54Received the Darwin Medal1996
  2. ~59Named Knight Bachelor2001
  3. ~60Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2002

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