SIR JOHN BERTRAND GURDON, BRITISH BIOLOGIST PASSED AWAY ON 7TH OCTOBER 2025

* BRITISH DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGIST JOHN GURDON PASSED AWAY.

BORN IN - 2nd OCTOBER 1933 

PASSED AWAY - 7TH OCTOBER 2025 

* POPULARLY KNOWN FOR NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION AND CLONNING.

WORKED AS - 

* DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ( UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 1962-1971) 

* FOUNDING MEMBER OF CRC INSTITUTE/ AT CELL BIOLOGY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ( 2004 - CHAIRMAN) 

* SERVED AS MEMBER OF NUFFIELD COUNCIL OF BIOETHICS ( 1991-1995) 

* In 1958 GURDON HAS SUCCESSFULLY CLONED A FROG USING INTACT NUCLEI FROM THE SOMATIC CELLS OF XENOPUS TADPOLE ( FROG) AT UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

* XENOPUS MEANS - GENUS OF HIGHLY AQUATIC FROG 

* HE WAS MEMBER OF ACADEMIA EUROPEA ( MAE) IN 1991.

* AWARDS - 

* 2009 - ALBERT LASKER BASIC MEDICAL RESEARCH AWARD 

* 2017 - GOLDEN PLATE AWARD ( AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT) 

* 1989 - WOLF PRIZE ( MEDICINE) FOR 

INTRODUCTION OF XENOPUS OOCYTE INTO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 

& His DEMONSTRATE THAT NUCLEUS OF DIFFERENTIATED CELL AND OFF EGG DIFFER in CONTENT OF GENETIC MATERIAL.

* 2012 - NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE ( ALONG WITH - SHINYA YAMANAKA) 

( FOR THE DISCOVERY THAT MATURE CELL CAN BE REPROGRAMME To BECOME PLURIPOTENT) 

* 1987 - INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR BIOLOGY 

* 1977 - PAUL EHRLICH & LUDWIG DARM STAEDTER PRIZE 

BOOKS - 

* 1973 - GENE EXPRESSION DURING CELL DIFFERENTIATION 

* 1974 - THE CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION IN ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT ( 

* 1980 - GENE CONTROL IN ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT