The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-08
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
Affiliations:
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund – London, United Kingdom
Sir Paul M. Nurse
Born: 1949-01-25 in Norwich, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English geneticist and Nobel laureate (born 1949)
Biography
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse 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 division of cells in the cell cycle.