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complete name:	Sir Paul Maxime Nurse
nobel prize:	medicine
award year:	2001
together with:	Lee Hartwell
together with:	Tim Hunt
prize share:	Prize share: 1/3
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 was awarded jointly to Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle."
biography:	Biography
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
given name:	Paul
family name:	Nurse
occupation:	chemist
occupation:	biochemist
occupation:	geneticist
field of work:	biochemistry
work location:	University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
description:	Sir Paul Maxime Nurse 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 (duplication) of cells in the cell cycle.
image copyright:	Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2001/summary/>
date birth:	1949
usual name:	Paul Nurse