John Gurdon
English developmental biologist (1933–2025)
Died aged 92LibraUnited Kingdom
Biography
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (2 October 1933 – 7 October 2025) was a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in Cellular differentiation and 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.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Oxford
- University of Cambridge
- California Institute of Technology
Family
- Parents
- William Nathaniel Gurdon
Awards & honours (20)
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Feldberg Foundation Prize
- Croonian Medal and Lecture
- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- Portland Press Excellence in Science Award
- William Bate Hardy Prize
- Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
- Royal Medal
- Ross G. Harrison Award
- International Prize for Biology
- Wolf Prize in Medicine
- Knight Bachelor
- Edwin Grant Conklin Medal
- Copley Medal
- Rosenstiel Award
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Harveian Oration
- honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University
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- John Gurdon died on October 7, 2025 at the age of 92.
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- John Gurdon was born on October 2, 1933.
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- John Gurdon was born in Dippenhall.
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- John Gurdon's zodiac sign is Libra.
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- John Gurdon is a citizen of United Kingdom.
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- John Gurdon is known as biologist, physician, university teacher, research scientist.
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