The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"

Sir John B. Gurdon

Born: 1933, Dippenhall, United Kingdom

Shinya Yamanaka

Born: 1962, Osaka, Japan

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Information and picture collected from Official Website for Nobel Prize

link:

www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/

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