BIOLOGIST

John Gurdon

1933 - Today

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Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Gurdon has received more than 338,000 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). John Gurdon is the 112th most popular biologist (down from 89th in 2019), the 710th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 669th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Biologist.

John Gurdon is most famous for his work with Xenopus laevis, a type of frog. He discovered that the nucleus of an adult cell from one organism can be transplanted into an egg cell from another organism and that the nucleus can reprogram the egg cell to develop as if it were fertilized by the donor's sperm.

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  • 3.30

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Gurdon ranks 112 out of 1,097. Before him are Edward Tatum, Jan Swammerdam, Julian Huxley, Nikolay Pirogov, Georg Forster, and Alfred Hershey. After him are Aimé Bonpland, Hans Christian Gram, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Carl Woese, Edward B. Lewis, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, John Gurdon ranks 59. Before him are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bobby Robson, Wilbur Smith, Ilia II of Georgia, Cormac McCarthy, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. After him are Tomislav Ivić, Philip Zimbardo, Mathieu Kérékou, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Horst Buchholz, and Edmund Phelps.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gurdon ranks 710 out of 8,785. Before him are Chris Rea (1951), Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Surtees (1934), Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), and Oliver Reed (1938). After him are Offa of Mercia (800), John Franklin (1786), John Cale (1942), James Macpherson (1736), John Paul Jones (1946), and George Darwin (1845).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Gurdon ranks 18. Before him are Philip Miller (1691), Archibald Hill (1886), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Philip Sclater (1829), Oliver Smithies (1925), and Julian Huxley (1887). After him are Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), and John Boyd Orr (1880).

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