John Gurdon
Shinya Yamanaka
- Born in Dippenhall, Britain in 1933
- Received Doctorate from University of Oxford in 1960
- Postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology
- Discovered in 1962 that specialization of cells is reversible
- Joined Cambridge University in 1972
Shinya Yamanaka
- Born in Osaka, Japan in 1962
- Received MD from Kobe University in 1987
- Received PhD from Osaka City University in 1993
- Discovered in 2006 how intact mature cells could be reprogrammed to become immature stem cells
- Currently a professor at Kyoto University