Mario Capecchi

Mario Ramberg Capecchi 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.

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Who was born first?

• Mario Capecchi and Igor Volk were born the same year
• Mario Capecchi and Marcian Hoff were born the same year
• Mario Capecchi and Ferdinand Piëch were born the same year
• Mario Capecchi was born 1 year before Lynn Conway
• Mario Capecchi was born 1 year before Bob Kahn

Timeline

1. Ferdinand PiëchApril 17, 1937 – August 25, 2019
2. Igor VolkApril 12, 1937 – January 3, 2017
3. Marcian HoffOctober 28, 1937 – present
4. Mario Capecchi (this page)October 6, 1937 – present
5. Bob KahnDecember 23, 1938 – present
6. Lynn ConwayJanuary 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024

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