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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