Martin Evans
Martin John Evans (2007)
Sir Martin John Evans (born 1 January 1941 in Stroud) is a British geneticist and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded along with Oliver Smithies and Mario Capecchi for research on the knockout mouse. Evans is a pioneer in the study of mouse embryonic stem cells, an essential tool for generating knockout mice.
Life
Evans graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge University in 1963. In 1969 he received his PhD from University College London. From 1969 to 1978 he worked at the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at University College London, teaching undergraduates. From 1978 he was at the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Cardiff University.
Awards
- 1993 – Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1999 – March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
- 2001 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research together with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies
- 2002 – Honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
- 2004 – Knight Bachelor (Queen’s New Years Honours) for services to medicine
- 2005 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath
- 2007 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies
- 2008 – Honorary doctorate of the University of Athens
- 2008 – Honorary doctorate from University College London
- 2009 – Member of the Academia Europaea[1]
- 2009 – Copley Medal
- 2011 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
- 2013 – Honorary Doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2007 award to Martin Evans (English)
- Biography (english)
- Literature by and about Martin Evans in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual references
- ↑ Membership Directory:Martin Evans.Academia Europaea, retrieved 4 November 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evans, Martin |
| ALTERNATE NAMES | Evans, Martin John |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | british geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1. January 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK |
- Graduate of the University of Cambridge
- Geneticist
- University lecturer (Cardiff)
- Knight Bachelor
- Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Member of the Royal Society
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- Winner of the Copley Medal
- Holder of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- Honorary Doctor of the University of Bath
- Honorary Doctor of the University of London
- Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge
- Honorary Doctor of the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens
- Honorary Doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Honorary doctor of a university in the United States
- British
- Born in 1941
- Man