Sir John B. Gurdon

Nobel Lecture

The Egg and the Nucleus: A Battle for Supremacy

Sir John B. Gurdon delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2012 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Urban Lendahl, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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Sir John B. Gurdon delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2012 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Urban Lendahl, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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