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Paul Nurse
President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Laureate
Paul Nurse, Ph.D, is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. He became Rockefeller University's ninth president in 2003.
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“The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.”
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"If we're related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives."
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse says benevolent intentions and money alone are insufficient.
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Biochemist Paul Nurse says that if you make incorrect assumptions in analysis, things can go bad quickly for public health.
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Prevention is very important, but scientists often don’t focus on it because it’s quite a difficult subject to study and often requires very long-term trials.
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A conversation with the Nobel Laureate and President of Rockefeller University.