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Paul Nurse
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Nobel prize winning British biochemist
Paul Nurse is a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on how cells divide and control their growth. His work has been fundamental to understanding cell biology and has important implications for treating diseases like cancer.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- ¿Qué es la vida?
- ¿Qué es la vida?
- Control of the Cell Cycle
- What Is Life?
- Building for 21st Century Science
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Film & TV
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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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
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maxime
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Norwich
- Occupation
- researcher
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- genetics
- Image
- Paul Nurse portrait.jpg
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- member of
- Royal Irish Academy
- Commons category
- Paul Nurse
- date of birth
- 1949-00-00
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Paul Maxime Nurse
- writing language
- English language
- interested in
- genetics
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, President of the Royal Society and former Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
Early life and education
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