一位英国研究者因证明了体细胞可以被重编程并在体内生长为不同组织,获得了2012年诺贝尔奖。但他童年要成为科学家的志向曾被其伊顿公学的老师斥为“可笑之至”。剑桥大学79岁的约翰·格登爵士与在京都大学和旧金山从事学术工作的50岁的日本科学家山中伸弥共同获得了2012年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖,以及800万瑞典克朗(合74.4万英镑)现金。这项开创性的工作让科学家们对于细胞 A British researcher won the 2012 Nobel Prize for demonstrating that somatic cells can be reprogrammed and grown into different tissues in the body. But his childhood ambition to be a scientist was “ridiculous” by his Eton teacher. Sir John Gordon, 79, of Cambridge University, received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Sir James Shinya, a 50-year-old Japanese scientist who did academic work at Kyoto University and San Francisco, and a scholarship of 8 million Swedish kronor (£ 744,000) in cash . This pioneering work lets scientists focus on cells