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John Gurdon

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (2 October 1933 – 7 October 2025) was a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. Awarded the Lasker Award in 2009, 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.

Infobox

Born
John Bertrand Gurdon(1933-10-02)2 October 1933Dippenhall, Surrey, England
Died
7 October 2025(2025-10-07) (aged 92)
Citizenship
British
Alma mater
Eton CollegeChrist Church, Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Known for
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Awards
mw- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1977)[citation needed]William Bate Hardy Prize (1984)[citation needed]Royal Medal (1985)[citation needed]International Prize for Biology (1987)[citation needed]Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989)Edwin Grant Conklin Medal (2001)[citation needed]Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2009)Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012)
Fields
Developmental biology
Institutions
University of OxfordMRC Laboratory of Molecular BiologyUniversity of CambridgeCalifornia Institute of Technology
Thesis
Nuclear transplantation in Xenopus (1960)
Doctoral advisor
Michail Fischberg
Doctoral students
Douglas A. MeltonEdward M. De Robertis

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Preceded bySir David Chilton Phillips
Preceded bySir David Chilton Phillips
Academic offices
Preceded bySir David Chilton Phillips
Academic offices
Fullerian Professor of Physiology 1985–1991
Academic offices
Succeeded byDame Anne McLaren
Preceded bySir David Calcutt
Preceded bySir David Calcutt
Academic offices
Preceded bySir David Calcutt
Academic offices
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1994–2002
Academic offices
Succeeded byDuncan Robinson
Academic offices
Preceded bySir David Chilton Phillips
Fullerian Professor of Physiology 1985–1991
Succeeded byDame Anne McLaren
Preceded bySir David Calcutt
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1994–2002
Succeeded byDuncan Robinson

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