Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse OM CH FRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and 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.

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
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Spouse
Anne Teresa Talbott
(m. 1971)
Children2 daughters
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
Doctoral studentsAlison Woollard
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