Sir Martin J. Evans

Sir Martin Evans is a British scientist well known for his work on the embryonic stem cells isolated from blastocysts of mice.  These genetically modified embryonic stem cells are implanted in female mice to produce genetically modified offspring. Transgenic mice are used as experimental models for research in areas of cancer, immunology, endocrinology and human genetic disorders.

Sir Evans graduated from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in 1963 where he studied biology and biochemistry. He then went to University College London as a research assistant. He was awarded a PhD in 1969. Sir Evans served as a lecturer in Anatomy and Embryology department at University College London. In 1978, he moved to the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge. He started his research on stem cell isolation in 1980 with Matthew Kaufmann and continued alone after Kaufmann moved to Edinburgh.

In June 2004, Sir Martin Evans received accolade from Prince Charles at the Buckingham Palace for his services in medical science. In 2007 Sir Evans was awarded with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries in the field of DNA recombination and embryonic stem cells. He shared the award with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. He is also awarded with honorary doctorate degrees from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY USA (2002) and University College London, England (2008).

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  1. 1993 – Fellow of the Royal Society.
  2. 1998 – Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
  3. 1999 – The USA charity March of Dimes awarded their annual prize in Developmental Biology for research into embryonic growth jointly to Professor Richard Gardner of Oxford University and Evans.
  4. 2001 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies.
  5. 2002 – Honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
  6. 2004 – Knighthood (New Year Honours) ”for services to medical science”
  7. 2005 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath, England.
  8. 2007 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies.
  9. 2008 – Honorary doctorate from University College London, England.
  10. 2009 – Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  11. 2009 – Copley Medal of the Royal Society
  12. 2009 – Member of the Advisory Board of the Faraday Institute

1. Two-generator groups with perfect Frattini subgroups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.100 (1987), 25-28.

2. A note on two-generator groups, Rocky Mountain J. Math., 17 (1987), 887-889.

3. (with Hyunyong Shin) Local conjugacy in finite groups, Arch. Math. (Basel), 50, (1988), 289-291.

4. Primitive elements in free groups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 106, no. 2 (1989), 313-316.

5. Freely decomposable automorphism groups, Arch. Math. (Basel), 52, (1989), 420-423.

6. (with Martyn R. Dixon) Divisible automorphism groups, Quart. J. Math., Oxford (2), 41(1990), 179-188.

7. Torsion in pro-finite completions of torsion-free groups, J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 65 (1990), 101-104.

8. (with Martyn R. Dixon) Periodic divisible-by-finite automorphism groups are finite, J. Algebra, vol 137,   No. 2 (1991), 416-424.

9. (with Martyn R. Dixon) On groups with a central automorphism of infinite order, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 114 (1992), 331-336.

10.  Presentations of groups involving more generators than are necessary, Proc. London Math. Soc., (3) 67 (1993), 106-126.

11. T-systems of certain finite simple groups, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., (1993), 113, 9, 9-22.

12. Presentations of the free metabelian group of rank two, Canad. Math. Bull. Vol. 37 (4), (1994), 468-472.

13. Some rings with many non-free, stably free modules, Quart. J. Math., Oxford (2), 46 (1995), 291-297.

14. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith) Locally (soluble-by-finite) groups of finite rank, J. Algebra, vol. 182, (1996), 756-769.

15. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith) Locally (soluble-by-finite) groups with all proper insoluble subgroups of finite rank, Arch. Math. (Basel), Vol 66, 1-10, (1996)

16. (with David M. Riley) Lie algebras of finite subalgebra rank, Arch. Math. (Basel), 69, (1997), 185-191.

17. Presentations of free abelian-by-(nilpotent of class 2) groups, Bull. London Math. Soc. 30 (1998) 136-144.

18. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith) On groups that are residually of finite rank, Israel J. Math., 107, (1998), 1-16.

19. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith) Locally (soluble-by-finite) groups with all proper non-nilpotent subgroups of finite rank, J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 135, (1999), 33-44.

20. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith) A Tits alternative for groups that are residually of finite rank, Israel J. Math., 109 (1999), 53-59.

21. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith) On groups with rank restrictions on subgroups, Proceedings of Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath, LMS Lecture Note Series, vol. 260, 237-247.

22 . Relation modules of infinite groups, Bull. London Math. Soc. 31, (1999), no.2, 154-162.

23. (with Martyn R. Dixon) Groups with the minimum condition on insoluble subgroups, Arch. Math. (Basel), 72, 1999, no.4, 241-251.

24. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with all proper subgroups (finite rank)-by-nilpotent, Arch. Math. (Basel), 72, 1999, no. 5, 321-327.

25. Epimorphisms between the free groups in a variety of groups, J. Algebra, 220, 492-511 (1999).

26. Primitive elements in the free metabelian group of rank 3, J. Algebra, 220, 475-491 (1999).

27. (with Martyn R. Dixon, Viatcheslav N. Obraztsov and James Wiegold), Groups that are covered by non-abelian simple groups, J. Algebra, 223, 511-526 (2000).

28. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with all proper subgroups nilpotent-by-finite rank, Arch. Math. (Basel), 75 (2000), no. 2, 81-91.

29. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with all proper subgroups (finite rank)-by-nilpotent II, Comm. Algebra, 29(3), 1183-1190 (2001).

30. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with some minimal conditions on non-nilpotent subgroups, J. Group Theory, 4 (2001), 207-215.

31. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Locally soluble-by-finite groups with the weak minimal condition on non-nilpotent subgroups, J. Algebra, 249, 226-246 (2002) .

32. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with various minimal conditions on subgroups, Ukrainian Math. J., 54 (6), 957-966 (2002).

33. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Minimal conditions, subgroups of infinite index and Frattini subgroups, Advances in groups theory 2002, 129-143, Aracne, Rome, 2003.

34. (with Youngmi Kim), On groups in which every subgroup of infinite rank is subnormal of bounded defect, Comm. Algebra, 32(7), 2547-2557 (2004).

35. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), On the derived length of subgroups of infinite index in soluble groups, J. Group Theory 7 (2004),127-133.

36. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Leonid A. Kurdachenko), Linear groups with the minimal condition on subgroups of infinite central dimension, J. Algebra, 277 (2004) 172-186.

37. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), A finiteness condition on subgroups of large derived length, J. Algebra, 280 (2004) 762-771.

38. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Locally (soluble-by-finite) groups with various restrictions on subgroups of infinite rank, Glasgow Math. J. 47 (2005) 309-317.

39. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with all proper subgroups soluble-by-finite rank, J. Algebra, 289 (2005) 135-147.

40. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Leonid A. Kurdachenko), Linear groups with minimality condition for some infinite dimensional subgroups, Ukrainian Math. J. 57, no. 11, (2005) 1726-1740.

41. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Embedding groups in locally (soluble-by-finite) simple groups, J. Group Theory 9 (2006), 383-395.

42. Presentations of groups involving more generators than are necessary, II, to appear in `Combinatorial Group Theory, Number Theory and Discrete Groups’ edited by B. Fine, A, Gaglione and D. Spellman. Contemporary Mathematics, A.M.S.

43. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Some countably recongnizable classes of groups, to appear, J. Group Theory.

44. (with Martyn R. Dixon and Howard Smith), Groups with proper subgroups of certain types, to appear in `Proceedings of Ischia group theory conference, 2006’, World Scientific International.

45. Nielsen equivalence classes and stability graphs of finitely generated groups, to appear in `Proceedings of Ischia group theory conference, 2006’, World Scientific International.

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