Robert Briggs (December 10, 1911 — March 4, 1983) was a scientist who, in 1952, together with Thomas Joseph King, cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells.
[1] Upon the death of his mother when he was two years old, Briggs was raised by his grandparents in Epping, New Hampshire.
However, he began Boston University in the business school, concerned with earning a living during the Depression.
For four years, he served as a fellow in the Department of Zoology at McGill University where he studied tumors in frogs.
In 1942, he joined the Lankenau Hospital Research Institute (now the Fox Chase Cancer Center) in Philadelphia.