Background

Gurdon, John Bertrand was born on October 2, 1933 in Dippenhall, Hampshire, England. Son of William Nathaniel and Elsie Marjorie (Byass) Gurdon.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Zoology, Oxford University, 1956. Doctor of Philisophy in Embryology, Oxford University, 1960. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1978.

Doctor (honorary), University Rene Descartes, Paris, 1982. Doctor of Science (honorary), Oxford University, 1988. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Hull, 1998.

Doctor of Science (honorary), University Glasgow, 2000. Doctor of Science, University Glasgow, Cambridge, Uk, 2007. Fellow Magdalene College (honorary), Cambridge, 2003.

Fellow Churchill College (honorary), Cambridge, 2007. Fellow Christ Church College (honorary), Oxford.

Career

Beit Memorial fellow department zoology Oxford University, 1958—1961, research fellow England, 1961-1971. Gosney research fellow California Institute of Technology, 1961—1962. Research fellow Christ Church, 1963—1964.

Member staff Medical Research Council, Laboratory Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, 1972—1983, head cell biology division England, 1979—1983. John Humphrey Plummer professor cell biology University Cambridge, 1983—2001. Master Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1995—2002.

Fullerian professor physiology and comparative anatomy Royal Institution, since 1985. Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock professorship University California, Berkeley, 2005—2006. Lecturer department zoology Oxford University, 1965-1972.

Visiting research fellow Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, 1965. Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge, 1974-1994, Eton College, Windsor, England, since 1978. Chairman Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research Campaign Institute Cancer and Development Biology, Cambridge, 1988-2001, Company Biologists.

Governor The Wellcome Trust, London, 1995-2000. Group leader Wellcome Czech Republic United Kingdom Institute, Cambridge, since 2001.

Achievements

• John Bertrand Gurdon has been listed as a noteworthy cell biologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Society London (Croonian lecturer, John Jaffe prize 1976, Royal medal 1985, Copley medal 2003, Rosenstiel prize, 2009). Member Institute of Medicine, American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary foreign member), Academie des Sciences, Institut de France (foreign associate), Academia Europaea, Lombardy Academy of Sciences (foreign member), Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts (foreign associate), American Philosophical Society (foreign member), UGoldsmiths Club London (liveryman 1986).

Connections

Married Jean Elizabeth Curtis, June 25, 1965. Elizabeth Aurea, William John.

Father:

William Nathaniel Gurdon

Mother:

Elsie Marjorie (Byass) Gurdon

Spouse:

Jean Elizabeth Curtis