Robert Briggs
Scientist, Deceased Person
1911 – 1983
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Who was Robert Briggs?
Robert Briggs was a scientist who in 1952, together with Thomas Joseph King, cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. The same technique, using somatic cells, was later used to create Dolly the Sheep. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplantation performed in metazoans.
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