Meeting Paul Nurse

 25/May/2025 at India International Centre

During my summer vacations, I had the opportunity to meet Paul Nurse, a Nobel laureate.

 Paul Nurse is an English geneticist, former president of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.  He was born on 25 January 1949, in Norwich, United Kingdom. Paul Nurse shares the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt. They were given the prize in 2001, for discovering key regulators of the cell cycle. Paul Nurse was also awarded the Copley Medal in 2005. His work also aided in the scientific understanding of cancer.

He visited India this summer, and I got the opportunity to sit through a talk. It was very informative, throughout the talk he tried to answer a vital question : What is life? From his own insights, to fun facts, his talk was an eye-opener to the understanding of life. He explained how genes are acquired, how cells thrive, the make up of chromosomes and many more pieces of interesting information. Paul Nurse also talked about famous personalities like Lewis Pasteur, Charles Darwin and even the famous artist, Johannes Vermeer.

In conclusion, Paul Nurse's talk was beautifully explained with jokes along the way. It inspires me to study biology even more! I loved it.



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