Sir Paul spoke at this spring’s Richard Dimbleby Lecture on ‘the Wonder of Science’ and - as this subject should resonate strongly throughout Cambridge - the Network asked him to give a similar talk to members when he comes to Cambridge this month. The event takes place at Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, from 6pm.
Sir Paul Nurse has been the President of the Royal Society since 1st December 2010. He is a geneticist who works on what controls the division and shape of cells. He was Professor of Microbiology at the University of Oxford, CEO of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK and President of Rockefeller University New York. He is currently Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
Paul Nurse was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 jointly with Leland H. Hartwell and Tim Hunt "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle". For more information about this work please see http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2001/
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Other events in this series: Professor Sir Richard Friend from the University of Cambridge, on 22nd January 2013.
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