James Thomson (cell biologist)

James Alexander Thomson is an American developmental biologist best known for deriving the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998 and for deriving human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) in 2007.

20 December 1958

Born on the same birth date (20 December 1958): Doug Nordquist

Born on the same birth day (20 December): Charley Grapewin • Jorginho (footballer, born December 1991) • Ksenia Makarova • Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz • Uri Geller

Born in the same month (December 1958): Alannah Myles • Diane Tell • Gary Peters • George Saunders • Javier Aguirre • Jeff Ruland • Mike Mills • Nancy J. Currie-Gregg • Paul Pressey • Sergei Starikov • Steven Isserlis • Vladimir Parfenovich • Zoran Gajić