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Mario Capecchi
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Person

Mario Capecchi

b. 1937

Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate

Born
6 Oct 1937 · Verona

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 102 years
  1. 6 Oct 1937BornBorn in Verona
  2. 1992AwardBristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
  3. 1993AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  4. 1994AwardAlfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
  5. 1996AwardKyoto Prize
  6. 1996AwardKyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
  7. 1997AwardFranklin Medal
  8. 2001AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  9. 2001AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 2002AwardJohn Scott Award
  11. 2002AwardMassry Prize
  12. 2002AwardWolf Prize in Medicine
  13. 2005AwardMarch of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1937 – today).

  1. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  2. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  3. 1938Munich Agreement
  4. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  5. 1939 – 1945World War II
  6. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  7. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  8. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  9. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  10. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  11. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  12. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  13. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  15. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  16. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  18. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  19. 1956Suez Crisis
  20. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  22. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  24. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  26. 1968Prague Spring
  27. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  28. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  29. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  30. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  32. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  33. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  34. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  35. 1985Schengen Agreement
  36. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  37. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  38. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  40. 19941994 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Mario Ramberg Capecchi (Italian: [ˈmaːɾjo kaˈpekki]; born October 6, 1937) is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. Capecchi is Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

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