Sir Paul Nurse | Trailer | Cambridge Union

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Sir Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist whose discoveries have helped explain how the cell controls its cycle of growth and division. In 2001, Paul was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, and his contributions to cell biology and cancer research were recognised with a knighthood in 1999. Paul has been Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute since 2011 and is a former President of the Royal Society.

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