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Sir John Bertrand Gurdon FRS (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation [2] [3] [4] and cloning. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
His children included Philip Gurdon (c. 1630–1690), who was also an MP for Sudbury, and the Reverend Nathaniel Gurdon D. D. (died 1696), Rector of Chelmsford, who survived his brother to inherit Assington on his death. There is a memorial to John Gurdon in the parish church of Assington, St Edmund's.
Gurdon was born in Balham, Surrey, [1] the son of John Gurdon and Mary Gray Rattray, [2] and attended Tonbridge School in Kent. From September 1916 he attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, [3] as a "Gentlemen Cadet", and after passing out (graduating), he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment on 1 May 1917.
John Gurdon (c. 1544 – 21 September 1623) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571. Gurdon was the son of Robert Gurdon of Assington , Suffolk and his wife Rose Sexton, daughter of Robert Sexton of Lavenham , Suffolk and widow of William Appleton of Little Waldingfield.
Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819–1902), American financier, philanthropist and collector; John Gurdon (born 1933), British developmental biologist and Nobel Prize Laureate; John Everard Gurdon (1898–1973), British flying ace; John Gurdon (MP) (1595–1679) English politician; Madeleine Gurdon (born 1962), English former equestrian sportswoman
John Brown Gordon (() February 6, 1832 – () January 9, 1904) was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee 's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War according to historian Ed Bearss , [ 1 ] : 241 he strongly opposed Reconstruction era .
The first vertebrate ever to be cloned was an African clawed frog in 1962, [35] an experiment for which Sir John Gurdon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012 "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent". [36]
John Gurdon Rebow (né John Gurdon; 1799 - 11 October 1870) [1] was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1870. John Gurdon was the son of Theophilus Thornhaugh Gurdon of Letton, Norfolk, and his wife, Anne Mellish, daughter of William Mellish MP. He was educated at Eton College. On ...