Background
Gl'RDON, John was born on October 2, 1933 in Hampshire. Son of W. N. Gurdon and E. M. Gurdon (nee Byass).
Gl'RDON, John was born on October 2, 1933 in Hampshire. Son of W. N. Gurdon and E. M. Gurdon (nee Byass).
Edgeborough School, Eton College, University of Oxford.
Fellow, California Institute of Technology, United States of America 1961-1962. Research Fellow, University of Oxford 1962-1972, Departmental Demonstrator 1963-1964, Lecturer, Department, of Zoology 1966-1972. Visiting Research Fellow, Carnegie Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America 1965.
Professor, of Cell Biology since 1983. Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge since 1973. Croonian Lecturer, Royal Society 1976.
Dunham Lecturer, Harvard Medical School 1974. Carter-Wallace Lecturer, Princeton University 1978. Fellow Eton College since 1978.
Honorary Student, Christ Church, Oxford 1985. Fullerian Professor, of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, Royal Institute since 1985. Honorary Foreign.
Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council, Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Cambridge 1973-1983, Head of Cell Biology Division 1979-1983, John Humphrey Plummer. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1978. American Philosophical Society 1983.
Married Jean Elizabeth Margaret Curtis in 1964.