the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians. In 2017, Gurdon received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Nobel Prize In 2012, Gurdon was awarded, jointly with Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent". His Nobel Lecture was called "The Egg and the Nucleus: A Battle for Supremacy". References External links Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 20 August 2008 (video) Wolf Prize in Medicine 1978–2008 edited by John Gurdon (book) including Chapter 1: John B Gurdon (1989) (pdf, 6 Mb) Cloning and Stem Cell Discoveries Earn Nobel in Medicine (New York Times, 8 October 2012) (7 December 2012) 1933 births Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 20th-century British biologists 21st-century British biologists Developmental biologists British Nobel laureates English Nobel laureates Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fullerian Professors of Physiology British Anglicans British agnostics Knights Bachelor Living people Masters of Magdalene College, Cambridge Members of the French Academy of Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine People educated at Eton College Place of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Copley Medal Royal Medal winners Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Articles containing video clips John Humphrey Plummer Professors Members of the American Philosophical Society Members of the National Academy of Medicine