John Gurdon Defied Biology Report

British developmental biologist John Gurdon ranked last out of 250 boys in biology at school, and his teacher wrote that a career in science would be "a waste of time, both for him and for those who have to teach him." Gurdon kept going anyway and built a career around cell development and cloning research. In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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