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John Gurdon
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon was a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.
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science · English developmental biologist (1933–2025) · biologist · physician · university teacher · research scientist · Nobel Prize winner · also John Gurdon, John Bertrand Gurdon, Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, John B Gurdon, J B Gurdon, J Gurdon
Born 2 October 1933 · Died 7 October 2025 · Q81218
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2025· 3 entries
The Washington Post: John Gurdon, Nobel laureate who laid groundwork for cloning, dies at 92
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Died 2025-10-07.
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2017· 1 entry
Gurdon received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Harveian Oration (2014).
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Delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012).
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Gurdon was awarded, jointly with Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
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2010· 1 entry
Of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2011, of the Anatomical Society in 2013, the American Association for Cancer Research in 2013, the Royal College of Physicians (Hon FRCP) in 2014, and the Royal Society of
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2009).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2009).
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In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Rosenstiel Award (2008).
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2004· 1 entry
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer was renamed the Gurdon Institute in his honour
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2003· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Won Edwin Grant Conklin Medal (2001).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1995).
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989).
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Was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine "for his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in
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Became a founding member of the Wellcome/CRC Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer at Cambridge, which was renamed in his honour in 2004, serving as its chairman until 2001
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded International Prize for Biology (1987).
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1985· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1985).
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Awarded Ross G. Harrison Award (1985).
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1984).
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Awarded William Bate Hardy Prize (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Portland Press Excellence in Science Award (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
The United States National Academy of Sciences in 1980, and the American Philosophical Society in 1983, since 2005 he has been an Honorary Member of the American Association of Anatomists
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1976).
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Feldberg Foundation Prize (1975).
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By a group working at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1971).
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And knighted in the 1995 Birthday Honours for "services to Developmental Biology"
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at Christ Church, Doctor of Philosophy (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
Gurdon, then at the University of Oxford, successfully cloned a frog using intact nuclei from the somatic cells of a Xenopus tadpole
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Christ Church, Bachelor of Arts (1956).
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1952· 1 entry
On transplanting nuclei from embryonic blastula cells and the successful induction of polyploidy in the stickleback, Gasterosteus aculatus, in 1956 by Har Swarup reported in Nature
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1933· 1 entry
Born 1933-10-02.
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