Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse OM CH PRS (Paul Maxime Nurse, born Norwich, 25 January 1949) is a British geneticist and cell biologist.The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Illustrated LectureNurse, Paul 2004. The great ideas of biology. The Romanes Lecture for 2003, Oxford University Press. 

He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Leland Hartwell and Timothy Hunt, for their discoveries about cell division.

They discovered cycle of cell division is regulated by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.Cyclins are a family of proteins that control the way cells go through the cell cycle by activating cyclin-dependent kinase enzymes. 

Sir Paul is the current President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.

He is also Emeritus Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Yeast genetics and Cell Biology at the Rockefeller University, New York City.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1991.

Nurse was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 2005.

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