This photograph shows the summer 1949 report card of fifteen-year-old Eton College student John Gurdon.

FORBES: Gurdon Makes The Grade

"If you're doing a Tony Bennett concert, you wouldn't use a lot of lasers, " Mr. Gurdon laughs.

WSJ: Lighting Designer Al Gurdon: The Light Master of Super Bowl Halftime

"I try to keep the colors consistent instead of jumping all over or changing all the time, " Mr. Gurdon says.

WSJ: Lighting Designer Al Gurdon: The Light Master of Super Bowl Halftime

Gurdon went on to study Zoology at Cambridge, and on October 8 2012, he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

FORBES: Gurdon Makes The Grade

Gurdon writes about children's books for the Journal.

WSJ: Juvenile Fiction: Matched

Mr. Gurdon avoids bright, candy colors.

WSJ: Lighting Designer Al Gurdon: The Light Master of Super Bowl Halftime

On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.

BBC: Serge Haroche and David Wineland

On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, and on Tuesday the prize for physics was awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US for their work in querying single light and matter particles.

BBC: Chemistry Nobel goes to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka