Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse
Chancellor of the University of Bristol
Assumed office
2017
PresidentHugh Brady
Preceded byThe Baroness Hale of Richmond
61st President of the Royal Society
In office
1 December 2010 – 1 December 2015
Preceded byThe Lord Rees of Ludlow
Succeeded byVenkatraman Ramakrishnan
9th President of Rockefeller University
In office
2003–2011
Preceded byArnold Levine
Succeeded byMarc Tessier-Lavigne
Personal details
Born
Paul Maxime Nurse

(1949-01-25) 25 January 1949 (age 75)[1]
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Spouse
Anne Teresa Talbott
(m. 1971)
[1]
Children2 daughters[1]
WebsiteFrancis Crick Institute - Paul Nurse
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe spatial and temporal organisation of amino acid pools in Candida utilis (1974)
Doctoral advisorAnthony P. Sims[4]
Doctoral studentsAlison Woollard[5]

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.[6][7][8] 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.[9]

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  2. ^ "EMBO profile: Paul Nurse". people.embo.org.
  3. ^ "Professor Paul NURSE". Fondation Louis-Jeantet. October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference nursephd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Woollard, Alison (1995). Cell cycle control in fission yeast. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 43404640. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.318479.
  6. ^ Nurse, P (2012). "In answer to questions about the Francis Crick Institute". The Lancet. 379 (9835): 2427–8. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61066-6. PMID 22748588. S2CID 37007507.
  7. ^ Nurse, Paul; Treisman, Richard; Smith, Jim (2013). "Building better institutions". Science. 341 (6141): 10. Bibcode:2013Sci...341...10N. doi:10.1126/science.1242307. PMID 23828914.
  8. ^ Paul Nurse's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 13 October 2021.