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
