John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent," announced the Nobel Committee at Swedish Karolinska Institute on Monday.

The following is a list of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine since 2002:

2012: John B. Gurdon (Britain) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japan);

2011: Bruce A. Beutler (US), Jules A. Hoffmann (Luxembourg and France), Ralph M. Steinman (Canada and US);

2010: Robert G. Edwards (Britain);

2009: Elizabeth. H. Blackburn (US and Australia), Carol W. Greider (US), Jack W. Szostak (US);

2008: Harald zur Hausen (Germany), Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (France), Luc Montagnier (France);

2007: Mario R. Capecchi (US), Martin J. Evans (Britain), Oliver Smithies (US);

2006: Andrew Z. Fire (US) and Craig C. Mello (US);

2005: Barry J. Marshall (Australia) and J. Robin Warren (Australia);

2004: Richard Axel (US) and Linda B. Buck (US);

2003: Paul C. Lauterbur (US) and Peter Mansfield (Britain);

2002: Sydney Brenner (Britain), H. Robert Horvitz (US), John E. Sulston (Britain).