Paul Nurse

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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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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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Key dates

Born

1949

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Maxime

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Norwich

Occupation

microbiologist

Employer

The Rockefeller University

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

atheism

Award

honorary doctorate

Academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Field of work

genetics

Image

Paul Nurse portrait.jpg

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