Thomas Joseph KingThomas J. King was an American biologist.BiographyWith Robert William Briggs, he worked on transplantation of somatic cell nuclei from adult frogs into enucleated oocytes this leading to the first clone of an animal in 1952. He was a scientist at the Lankenau [Institute for Medical Research|Institute for Cancer Research] of the Lankenau Hospital Research Institute when the work was conducted. King and Briggs were awarded in 1972 the highest honor of the French Academy: the Grand [Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer] of the Académie des Sciences, Institut [de France] and were the first Americans to be so honored.