Ian Wilmut, British Scientist Who Cloned Dolly The Sheep, Dies – Top Speed News
LONDON (AP) — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday after a long illness with Parkinson’s disease. Wilmut set off a global discussion about the ethics of cloning when…