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... Wikipedia
Born: 1937 (age 86 years), Verona, Italy
Education: Harvard University, Antioch College, and George School
Known for: Hox genes in knockout mice
Parents: Lucy Ramberg and Luciano Capecchi