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“I was the worst out of 250.” John Gurdon, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
Not even Nobel Prize laureates get straight A’s.
Hear 2012 medicine laureate John Gurdon speak about being a non-intellectual and having a teacher that thought it was “ridiculous” that Gurdon thought about becoming a scientist.
Developmental biologist Gurdon received the medicine prize โfor the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.โ
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Dude's one of the most handsome 91yo dude's I've ever seen.
Class
That Cheshire grin, because whoโs laughing now?! Take that, judgmental pompous โteachersโ!
Perhaps attention deficit disorder inattentive type. We find it tedious and unpleasant to read. Plus it might explain a brilliant mind who did not do so well in school, but is highly successful going his own way.
He won the Nobel Prize of strong hairlines too
"on his present showing…"
Well, they did include that caveat. ๐๐ป
What a great guy
A humble genius. โค
I meant he was bottom at Eton ones of the best schools in the country
It's because most people can't spot genius either that or they're jealous and threatened and want to elevate themselves by putting that genius down.
… And few but Gurdon remember who that teacher was…
Thanks these people do exist !!!! ๐๐ผ
He doesn't need to read the books, he writes them.
I dearly wish we still had Men like this in the World.
Self-deprecating in the best way.
School is not really good for truly brilliant people ๐
We still need education for the ninety nine percent who would have no chance without it
Why don't I ever meet people like him ….
I'm a non intellectual ๐คง
Such humility and class! Awesome character
Imagine if teachers actually liked their jobs and supported their students for a change ughh.
Teachers are not always right ๐and thanks God for that.
Crispin Glover would play him in a biopic.
He reminds me of the character in the film "Electra Glide in Blue". Sometimes it is better to listen to yourself than other people. Great guy.
Honestly Super
Well he did get into Oxford, so i imagine he got much better in high school…
I got the highest mark in physics when I wrote a report on a failed experiment!! No wonder I missed the Nobel. Damn Damn.
My youngest never bothered to study much in school. I got a proper shelling every end of term. One teacher actually told me that my child was slow because she is not fluent in our mother tongue. She just finished her law degree. Not doing so badly so far. Teachers should be people who love teaching not teach because they werenโt qualified to do anything else. It matters. The young personโs life depends on it.
He's so modest, humble and so quintessentially charming and "old school".
A real man is humble. โคโคโค
If there was a Nobel Prize for humility, he'd win another one
Einstein even was mocked and humiliated by his teacher about his mathematical skills.
He was great as Gandalf, tho.
Delightful gentleman, class, modest and brilliant! If someone tells you you cannot do something, do it anyway! I have.
Making science career something that only some kind of deep ass over worldly intelligent people can do is stupid af. It's a passion, a job. One you do responsibly and with love. Everything else is bogus.
He has a Mick Jagger kind of look! ๐
focus and discipline can overcome most if not all shortcomings. his humility is refreshing.
Hard to keep the grades up when the ladies won't leave you alone!
Only your Maker truly understands what you're made of. Everyone is wrong about you except Him.
Sounds like me