Ian Wilmut, a British scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep, dies at age 79
File photo of Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut. | Photo Credit: AP Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland said on September 11. He was 79. Wilmut set off a global discussion about the ethics of cloning…