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John Gurdon
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John Gurdon

1933 – 2025 · aged 92

British developmental biologist (1933–2025)

Born
2 Oct 1933 · Dippenhall
Died
7 Oct 2025

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 2 Oct 1933BornBorn in Dippenhall
  2. 1971AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  3. 1975AwardFeldberg Foundation Prize
  4. 1976AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
  5. 1977AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  6. 1979AwardPortland Press Excellence in Science Award
  7. 1982AwardHonorary doctor of Paris Descartes University
  8. 1984AwardGrand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
  9. 1984AwardWilliam Bate Hardy Prize
  10. 1985AwardRoss G. Harrison Award
  11. 1985AwardRoyal Medal
  12. 1987AwardInternational Prize for Biology
  13. 1989AwardWolf Prize in Medicine
  14. 7 Oct 2025DiedDied

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1933 – 2025).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (2 October 1933 – 7 October 2025) was a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in Cellular differentiation and 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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