Robert Briggs (scientist)
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Robert Briggs (December 10, 1911 — March 4, 1983) 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. He was a scientist of the Institute for Cancer Research when the work was done.
He was was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. He completed BS in Boston University, and then obtained Ph.D. in 1938 from Harvard University.
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