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Paul Nurse

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Paul Nurse 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.

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Birth Year
1949 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1949-01-25 2
Nationality
United Kingdom 1
Birthplace
Norwich, United Kingdom 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Field (category)
Biology 1
Field (category)
Genetics 1
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Genetics, Disciplines
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1. Paul Nurse (Wikidata)
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United Kingdom
    Q145
  • P19 (place of birth): Norwich, United Kingdom
    Q130191
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2. Paul Nurse (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section (Wikipedia plaintext extract)
    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.
  • Infobox, Born
    25 January 1949
  • Works In: Genetics, Lead sentence
    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.
  • Member Of: Royal Society, Article text
    He was elected an EMBO Member in 1987 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989 and a Founder Member of t
  • Member Of: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Article text
    In 2015, he was elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and won the 10th annual Henry G. Fries
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