Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2012

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 Sir John B. Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka

John B. Gurdon Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 1989

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon FRS FMedSci (born 2 October 1933), is an English developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1989 and the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.