Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse
OM CH FRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE
Sir Paul Nurse OM CH FRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE
Chancellor of the University of Bristol
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
President	Hugh Brady
Preceded by	The Baroness Hale of Richmond
61st President of the Royal Society
	In office; 1 December 2010 – 1 December 2015
Preceded by	The Lord Rees of Ludlow
Succeeded by	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
9th President of Rockefeller University
	In office; 2003–2011
Preceded by	Arnold Levine
Succeeded by	Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Personal details
Born	Paul Maxime Nurse; 25 January 1949 (age 75); Norwich, Norfolk, England
Spouse	Anne Teresa Talbott (m. 1971)
Children	2 daughters
Website	Francis Crick Institute - Paul Nurse
Alma mater	University of Birmingham (BSc); University of East Anglia (PhD);
Awards	EMBO Member (1987); Fellow of the Royal Society (1989); Rosenstiel Award (1992); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992); Royal Medal (1995); Lasker Award (1998); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001); Copley Medal (2005); Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2013);
	Scientific career
Fields	Genetics; Cell biology; Cell cycle;
Institutions	Royal Society; Francis Crick Institute; Rockefeller University; University of Bristol; University of Edinburgh; University of Oxford; Linacre College; Imperial Cancer Research Fund; Cancer Research UK; University of Sussex;
Thesis	The spatial and temporal organisation of amino acid pools in Candida utilis (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Anthony P. Sims
Doctoral students	Alison Woollard

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.^[6]^[7]^[8] 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.^[9]

^ ^a ^b ^c "NURSE, Sir Paul (Maxime)". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "EMBO profile: Paul Nurse". people.embo.org.
^ "Professor Paul NURSE". Fondation Louis-Jeantet. October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference nursephd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Woollard, Alison (1995). Cell cycle control in fission yeast. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 43404640. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.318479.
^ Nurse, P (2012). "In answer to questions about the Francis Crick Institute". The Lancet. 379 (9835): 2427–8. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61066-6. PMID 22748588. S2CID 37007507.
^ Nurse, Paul; Treisman, Richard; Smith, Jim (2013). "Building better institutions". Science. 341 (6141): 10. Bibcode:2013Sci...341...10N. doi:10.1126/science.1242307. PMID 23828914.
^ Paul Nurse's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 13 October 2021.

Sir Paul Nurse OM CH FRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE


Chancellor of the University of Bristol
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017
President	Hugh Brady
Preceded by	The Baroness Hale of Richmond
61st President of the Royal Society
In office 1 December 2010 – 1 December 2015
Preceded by	The Lord Rees of Ludlow
Succeeded by	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
9th President of Rockefeller University
In office 2003–2011
Preceded by	Arnold Levine
Succeeded by	Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Personal details
Born	Paul Maxime Nurse (1949-01-25) 25 January 1949 (age 75)^[1] Norwich, Norfolk, England
Spouse	Anne Teresa Talbott (m. 1971) ^[1]
Children	2 daughters^[1]
Website	Francis Crick Institute - Paul Nurse

Alma mater	University of Birmingham (BSc) University of East Anglia (PhD)
Awards	EMBO Member (1987)^[2] Fellow of the Royal Society (1989) Rosenstiel Award (1992) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992)^[3] Royal Medal (1995) Lasker Award (1998) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001) Copley Medal (2005) Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Genetics Cell biology Cell cycle
Institutions	Royal Society Francis Crick Institute Rockefeller University University of Bristol University of Edinburgh University of Oxford Linacre College Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Research UK University of Sussex
Thesis	The spatial and temporal organisation of amino acid pools in Candida utilis (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Anthony P. Sims^[4]
Doctoral students	Alison Woollard^[5]