Mario R. Capecchi Ph.D.
Mario R. Capecchi Ph.D. 
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
Nobel co-recipients: Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies
National Medal of Science – Biological Sciences 2001
Name: Mario Ramberg Capecchi Ph.D.
Birth: 6 October 1937, Verona, Italy
Institution: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Award: “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”
Subject: Genetics
Mentor: James Watson
Portion of cash: 1/2
Mother incarcerated as political prisoner, Germany. “At age 4½, I set off on my own, living in streets, orphanages; joining gangs of homeless children; generally hungry. Vivid recollections, brutal beyond description.”
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President George W. Bush with 2007 Nobel Laureates in Oval Office. Left to right: White House staff Harlan Watson, Joint awardee Nobelist Oliver Smithies, Nobelist Mario Capecchi, Peace Nobelist Al Gore [former US Vice President], President George W. Bush, Economics Nobelist Eric Maskin, White House staff Susan Solomon, Economics Nobelist Roger Myerson and White House staff Sharon Hays. Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. Author: Eric Draper. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Mario Cpecchi 2nd from right. Joint awardee Nobelist Oliver Smithies 3rd from left. Author: Matt Brown. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Mario Capecchi at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 2008. Author: Szereshk. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Mario Capecchi, Conference on Transposition and Genome Engineering 2013, Budapest. Photo: Thaler Tamás. Source: Wikimedia Commons
A photograph of my mother, Lucy Ramberg, at age 19. Source Mario Capecchi.
A painting done by my grandmother, Lucy Dodd Ramberg, of her three children, left to right, Edward, Lucy, and Walter. It was painted at their villa in Florence, Italy in 1913. Source Mario Capecchi.
A painting by Lucy Dodd Ramberg of my mother, Lucy, and uncle Edward having tea at the villa in Florence, Italy (1913). Source Mario Capecchi.
A photograph of the chalet where my mother and I lived in Wolfgrübben just north of Bolzano, Italy. In the foreground is my mother, Lucy. Source Mario Capecchi.
A photograph of my uncle Edward Ramberg working in his laboratory at RCA Princeton, New Jersey. Source Mario Capecchi.
A photograph of James D. Watson. Source Mario Capecchi.
A photograph of Karl G. Lark. Source Mario Capecchi.
My wife, Laurie Fraser and daughter Misha, just after she was born. Misha is now graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz as an arts major. Source Mario Capecchi.
View from one of our homes in Utah. Source Mario Capecchi.
View from one of our homes in Utah. Source Mario Capecchi.
View from one of our homes in Utah. Source Mario Capecchi.