He’s now Sir John Gurdon, and on Oct. 8, he became a Nobel Prize winner. Gurdon received the award along with Shinya Yamanaka for the duo’s pioneering research in the realm of steam cells.

That doesn’t appear to be the case for one teacher who called a future Nobel Prize winner’s dreams of becoming a scientist “quite ridiculous” in a scathing report card. John Gurdon’s ...

Kids, don't let a bad report card keep you from pursuing your dreams. One prize-winning scientist was warned that his scientific ambitions "would be a sheer waste of time." They weren't. British ...

Despite his teacher’s opinion that he couldn’t learn simple biological facts, John Gurdon managed - in a classical experiment in 1962 - to replace the immature cell nucleus in an egg cell of a ...

In 1949, a teacher at Eton, a British boarding school, belittled John Gurdon's dreams of becoming a scientist as "quite ridiculous." This week, Gurdon's breakthrough in reprogramming cells ...

Veteran British scientist John Gurdon, who shared the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, is often described as the "godfather of cloning" for his work on stem cell research but was once told by ...

John Gurdon's future success was almost nipped in the bud in 1949 when a schoolmaster at elite Eton College wrote on his report card that pursuing science would be a waste of time.

British scientist Sir John Gurdon's path to academic glory began on a strange path. Photo / AP. What you learn at school isn't everything: at least that's according to Nobel Prize-winning ...