The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
Awarded on: 2012-10-08
"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
Affiliations:
- Gurdon Institute – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sir John B. Gurdon
Born: 1933-10-02 in Dippenhall, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English developmental biologist (born 1933)
Biography
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.