Paul Nurse

Sir
Paul Nurse
OM CH PRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE
Sir Paul Nurse OM CH PRS FMedSci HonFREng HonFBA MAE
61st and 64th President of the Royal Society
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 December 2025
Preceded by	Adrian Smith
	In office; 1 December 2010 – 1 December 2015
Preceded by	The Lord Rees of Ludlow
Succeeded by	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Chancellor of the University of Bristol
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
President	Hugh Brady
Preceded by	The Baroness Hale of Richmond
9th President of Rockefeller University
	In office; 2003–2011
Preceded by	Arnold Levine
Succeeded by	Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Personal details
Born	Paul Maxime Nurse; 25 January 1949; Norwich, Norfolk, England
Spouse	Anne Teresa Talbott (m. 1971)
Children	2 daughters
Education	University of Birmingham (BSc); University of East Anglia (PhD)
Website	Francis Crick Institute - Paul Nurse
Scientific career
Awards	Rosenstiel Award (1992); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992); Royal Medal (1995); Lasker Award (1998); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001); Copley Medal (2005); Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2013);
Fields	Genetics; Cell biology; Cell cycle;
Institutions	Royal Society; Francis Crick Institute; Rockefeller University; University of Bristol; University of Edinburgh; University of Oxford; Linacre College; Imperial Cancer Research Fund; Cancer Research UK; University of Sussex;
Thesis	The spatial and temporal organisation of amino acid pools in Candida utilis (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Anthony P. Sims
Doctoral students	Alison Woollard

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Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, President of the Royal Society and former 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 of cells in the cell cycle.