Quotes by Paul Nurse

About Paul Nurse:

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist, 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 (duplication) of cells in the cell cycle.
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This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

Paul Nurse

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Nurse
  • DescriptionBritish biochemist
  • BornJanuary 25, 1949
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionBiochemist; Geneticist
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Albert Lasker Award For Basic Medical Research; Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine; Copley Medal; Royal Medal; Albert Einstein World Award Of Science; Marjory Stephenson Prize;