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Article: Mario Capecchi: The man who changed our world
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 9, 2007
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The genetics research that won Mario Capecchi a share of this
year's Nobel Prize for medicine may well help to define the science
of the 21st century.
But the man himself was marked, in extraordinary ways, by the
turbulent history of the century before.
Mr Capecchi's grandfather, a German archaeologist, was
accidentally gunned down by his own men during the First World War.
His father, an Italian aviator, perished in the Second World War. He
himself spent that war destitute in northern Italy after his
American mother was arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration
camp - a survival tale all the more remarkable for the fact that he
was just four years old when his mother was taken away.
One ...