Sir
Paul Maxime Nurse
Rockefeller University
Biochemist; Molecular biologist; Educator; Academic administrator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Medical Sciences
Elected
2006
President and Professor. Biochemist. Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries relating to cell-cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin-dependent kinases. Current research focuses on the cell cycle of fission yeast. Knighted in 1999 and awarded the French Legion d'Honneur in 2002.
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