1. John Gurdon went up to Christ Church, Oxford, to read classics then switched to zoology, graduating as MA.
10 Facts About John Gurdon
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John Gurdon spent much of his research career at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and then in the Department of Zoology.
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John Gurdon married Jean Elizabeth Margaret Curtis, by whom he has a son and a daughter.
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John Gurdon's experiments captured the attention of the scientific community as it altered the notion of development and the tools and techniques he developed for nuclear transfer are still used today.
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Haldane, in describing John Gurdon's results, became one of the first to use the word "clone" in reference to animals.
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John Gurdon has stated that he is politically "middle of the road", and religiously agnostic because "there is no scientific proof either way".
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John Gurdon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971, and appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1995 Birthday Honours.
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John Gurdon was awarded the 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and in 2014 delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians.
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In 2017, John Gurdon received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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In 2012, John Gurdon was awarded, jointly with Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent".