Matthew Cobb

Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is known for his popular science books The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth; Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; and The Idea of the Brain: A History. Cobb has appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, The Life Scientific, and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.

4 February 1957

Born on the same birth day (4 February): Augustin Pyramus de Candolle • Dietrich Bonhoeffer • Emperor Norton • Gavin DeGraw • Gotse Delchev • Jiří Raška • Ludwig Prandtl • Malik Monk • Maximilian Wöber • Rolf Landauer • Rosa Parks

Born in the same month (February 1957): Adrian Smith (musician) • Alan Smith (bishop) • Danny Antonucci • Dave Stewart (baseball) • David Beasley • Denise Austin • Dámaso García • Eric Lander • Glen Hanlon • Ian Smith (New Zealand cricketer) • John Jude Palencar • John Turturro • Karine Chemla • Katherine Freese • Kathy Najimy • Kevin Curran (writer) • Loreena McKennitt • Marita Koch • Mohammed Jamal Khalifa • Simon Phillips (drummer) • Soile Isokoski • Terry McAuliffe • Tharman Shanmugaratnam