John Gurdon

Sir John Gurdon
FRS
Sir John Gurdon FRS
	Gurdon in 2012
Born	John Bertrand Gurdon; 2 October 1933; Dippenhall, Surrey, England
Died	7 October 2025 (aged 92)
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Known for	Nuclear transfer; cloning;
Awards	Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1977); William Bate Hardy Prize (1984); Royal Medal (1985); International Prize for Biology (1987); Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989); Edwin Grant Conklin Medal (2001); Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2009); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012);
	Scientific career
Fields	Developmental biology
Institutions	University of Oxford; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Cambridge; California Institute of Technology;
Thesis	Nuclear transplantation in Xenopus (1960)
Doctoral advisor	Michail Fischberg
Doctoral students	Douglas A. Melton; Edward M. De Robertis

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon FRS (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.