Paul Nurse

Nobel prize winning British biochemist

Sir Paul Nurse PRS (Paul Maxime Nurse, born Norwich, 25 January 1949) is a British geneticist and cell biologist.[2][3]

Sir Paul Nurse
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Paul Nurse
Born (1949-01-25) 25 January 1949 (age 71)
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
University of East Anglia
Known forCell cycle regulation
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
Copley Medal in 2005
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics/cell biology


They discovered cycle of cell division is regulated by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.[4]



Nurse was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 2005.


  2. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Illustrated Lecture
  4. Cyclins are a family of proteins that control the way cells go through the cell cycle by activating cyclin-dependent kinase enzymes. Galderisi U; Jori FP; Giordano A (2003). "Cell cycle regulation and neural differentiation". Oncogene. 22 (33): 5208–19. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1206558. PMID 12910258. Unknown parameter |author-separator= ignored (help)
  5. Rockefeller University: Sir Paul Nurse