Paul Nurse is a prominent British biochemist and geneticist, known for his pioneering research in the field of cell biology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001, along with Leland Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt, for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle, which are crucial for understanding how cells divide and proliferate. Nurse has served in various academic and leadership roles, including as the director of the Francis Crick Institute in London.
