Mario Capecchi
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 86 |
| Date of birth | October 6,1937 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Verona |
| Italy | |
| Nationality | American |
| Italian | |
| Parents | Lucy Ramberg |
| Luciano Capecchi | |
| Job | Biologist |
| Researcher | |
| Molecular Geneticist | |
| Education | Antioch College |
| George School | |
| Harvard University | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research | |
| Gairdner Foundation International Award | |
| Franklin Medal | |
| National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
| Massry Prize | |
| Wolf Prize in Medicine | |
| Uncles | Edward Ramberg |
| Thesi | On the Mechanism of Suppression and Polypeptide Chain Initiation |
| Academic advisor | James D. Watson |
| Known for | Hox genes in knockout mice |
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| ID | 547122 |
Mario Capecchi Life story
Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born 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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