Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse FRS FREng, 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 divisionof cells in the cell cycle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth25 January 1949
interviews weakness degrees
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
mother father years
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
real philosophy careers
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.
might sake way
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
thinking curiosity world
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
memories examination enough-time
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
abandoned british-scientist fact major mistake type
In fact I am very much an experimentalist and an empiricist, so it would have been a major mistake for me to have abandoned this type of work.