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Paul Nurse

1949 - Today

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Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Nurse is the 660th most popular biologist (down from 517th in 2019), the 3,088th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,580th in 2019) and the 99th most popular British Biologist. Learn more about Paul Nurse's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Nurse ranks 660 out of 1,097. Before him are James Francis Stephens, Leonhard Stejneger, Sabiha Kasimati, Jacob Sturm, Pál Kitaibel, and Ferdinand Albin Pax. After him are Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Archibald Reiss, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Hipólito Ruiz López, Edward Forbes, and Heinz Christian Pander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Paul Nurse ranks 338. Before him are Delia Owens, Erik Estrada, Ryohei Suzuki, Luís Pereira, Paulo César Carpegiani, and Zé Mário. After him are Trevor Jones, Patti LuPone, Alex Higgins, Alfred Riedl, Dutch Mantel, and Nené.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Nurse ranks 3,089 out of 8,785. Before him are Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), Antonio Pappano (1959), Quentin Blake (1932), John Wilkes (1725), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), and Jim Ratcliffe (1952). After him are Imogen Heap (1977), John Playfair (1748), Lady Sarah Chatto (1964), Christopher O'Neill (1974), Matthew Locke (1621), and Laura Mulvey (1941).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Paul Nurse ranks 99. Before him are John Richardson (1787), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), William John Burchell (1781), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Daniel Oliver (1830), and James Francis Stephens (1792). After him are John Sims (1749), William Withering (1741), N. E. Brown (1849), Anthony R. Hunter (1943), James Sowerby (1757), and Thomas Nuttall (1786).

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