Dolly the Sheep creator gets honour

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Professor Wilmut, 63, receives the award for services to science but is best known at the creator of Dolly in 1996.

He said he was accepting the award on behalf of colleagues he formerly worked with at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, and colleagues he currently works with at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

He left the institute two years ago to join the centre, and became its head earlier this year.

"The award also recognises the importance of biomedical research to develop new treatments in regenerative medicine," said the professor.

"This research holds out great promise for the development of treatments for diseases which have no effective treatment at the present time, such as motor neurone disease, MS, and disorders of the immune system."

The professor is Scotland's best-known living scientist and his boyhood ambition was to go to sea - either in the Royal Navy or the merchant service.

But a touch of colour-blindness spelled the end of those hopes. Instead he became interested in farming and began working at farms at weekends at the age of 14.

This interest led him to study agriculture at Nottingham University and he expected to become a dairy farmer. But a summer holiday working in a science laboratory led to an interest in embryology.

The citation for his knighthood credits Prof Wilmut with "revolutionising" biology through the cloning technique which underpins the science of stem cell technology.