Sir Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist, President of the Royal Society and former 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.
- Occupation
- biochemist, geneticist, chemist, researcher
- Position held
- President of the Royal Society, Chancellor of the University of Bristol
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- January 25, 1949, 1949