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): Anders Odden • Bill Hosket Jr. • Cecil Cooper • Charlie Callas • Chris Robinson (singer) • Jörg Schmidt (footballer) • Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark • Mohammad Asif (cricketer) • Nalo Hopkinson

Born in the same month (December 1958): Alberto Cova • Arlette Sombo-Dibélé • Candace Bushnell • Charlene Tilton • Doug Nordquist • Gary Peters • Gene Sperling • George Rogers (American football) • Jeff Ruland • Joan Severance • Rick Rude • Sergei Starikov • Sheree J. Wilson