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'Godfather' of cloning whose work paved the way for Dolly the Sheep decades after he flunked biology class at Eton and was told dreams of becoming a scientist were 'ridiculous' dies aged 92

Sir John Gurdon, who died on Tuesday, won the Nobel Prize for discovering that all body cells have the same gene. His work led to Dolly the Sheep. But at Eton he performed terribly in biology class.