Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka, Briton John Gurdon win 2012 Nobel prize for medicine/physiology

John Gurdon
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Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (2 October 1933 – 7 October 2025) was 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 in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.
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Sir John Gurdon, biologist who won the Nobel Prize for work that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep
Profile of John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology
John Gurdon And Shinya Yamanaka Share 2012 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine - Chemical & Engineering News