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John Gurdon

1933 - Today

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Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is 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 for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Gurdon is the 310th most popular biologist (down from 112th in 2019), the 1,688th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 710th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Biologist.

John Gurdon is most famous for his work with Xenopus laevis, a type of frog. He discovered that the nucleus of an adult cell from one organism can be transplanted into an egg cell from another organism and that the nucleus can reprogram the egg cell to develop as if it were fertilized by the donor's sperm.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Gurdon ranks 310 out of 1,097. Before him are Edward Turner Bennett, Jacob Christian Schäffer, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Hieronymus Bock, Karl Alfred von Zittel, and Motoo Kimura. After him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Elmer Drew Merrill, Karl Gegenbaur, Gerrit Smith Miller, Jean Victoir Audouin, and Ian Wilmut.

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Among people born in 1933, John Gurdon ranks 145. Before him are Maurice André, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, Luis Bacalov, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Frits Bolkestein, and Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Bob Bennett, Fred Haise, Laura Mancinelli, Viktor Patsayev, Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria, and Wendell R. Anderson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gurdon ranks 1,688 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Wilson (1872), David Chipperfield (1953), Emilia Clarke (1986), Zara Tindall (1981), Orlando Gibbons (1583), and Penda of Mercia (606). After him are Paddy Roy Bates (1921), John Vanbrugh (1664), David Rose (1910), Frederick Delius (1862), John Farey Sr. (1766), and Una O'Connor (1880).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Gurdon ranks 52. Before him are Desmond Morris (1928), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Gould (1804), George Bentham (1800), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), and George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799). After him are Ian Wilmut (1944), Patrick Geddes (1854), Edward Blyth (1810), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Nehemiah Grew (1641), and Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847).

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