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Mario Capecchi — Age & Birthday

Born: 6 October 1937 · Age: 89

How old is Mario Capecchi?

Mario Capecchi is 89 years old as of October 2026. He was born on 6 October 1937.

Nobel Prize winner known for creating knockout mice in genetic research

Did you know?He spent several years as a homeless street child in Italy during the Second World War before moving to the United States.

Mario Ramberg Capecchi (Italian:; born October 6, 1937) is an Italian-born American 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.

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