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about John Gurdon, who was ranked last out of 250 boys in his year group in Biology and in a progress report, his teacher said that pursuing Biology for him would be a waste of time, for him and those who have to teach him . In 2012, John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine

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