Dolly the sheep scientist Sir Ian Wilmut dies at 79

Prof Wilmut with the stuffed body of Dolly in 2003 at what is now the National Museum of Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Sir Ian Wilmut, the man who led the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, has died, aged 79.

Prof Wilmut headed a group of scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh to create the sheep, which was born on 5 July 1996.