Paul Nurse

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Film & TV

Acting · Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse FRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE, is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.

Known for

• Cunk on Life — Self2024
• Great Minds — Self2021
• The Big Thinkers — Presenter2016
• Genius of Britain — Self2010
• HARDtalk1997
• Question Time — Self - Panellist1979

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Group

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

15

Total plays

157

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

   · 1958 · cited 70,570x

2. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 67,716x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 45,419x

4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 44,683x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan

b. 1949

Nationality

GB, XXK, GBR, FR

Role / Field

Geneticists, Genetici, Cytologists, College presidents, Genetycy, Life biology

Language

eng

Gender

Male

Recorded by 23 libraries

Quotes

• “How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.”
• “Even at the level of the cell, phenomena such as general cellular homeostasis and the maintenance of cell integrity, the generation of spatial and temporal order, inter- and intracellular signalling, cell 'memory' and reproduction are not fully understood. ...This is also true for the levels of organization seen in tissues, organs and organisms, which feature more complex phenomena such as and operation of the immune and s.”
• “We need to focus more on how information is managed in living systems and how this brings about higher level biological phenomena... more investigation into how living systems gather, process, store and use information, as was emphasized at the birth of .”
• “DNA can act as a digital information storage device that can be precisely copied. Similarly, the mechanism of the lac operon... can be described in terms of molecular interactions between DNA, protein and s. But these interactions make sense only when they are translated into a negative loop...”
• “Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way:”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2001

  “for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle”

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