'Trust in Science': 2016 Carnegie Lecture by Sir Paul Nurse
On Wednesday 25 May 2016, Sir Paul Nurse visited the University to deliver the third lecture in the series: 'Trust in Science'.
Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist who has worked on how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled and how cell shape and cell dimensions are determined. His major work has been on the cyclin dependent protein kinases and how they regulate cell reproduction. In 2010, he was elected as President of the Royal Society for a five-year term. He is currently Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and has served as Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK and President of Rockefeller University. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and has received the Albert Lasker Award and the Royal Society's Royal and Copley Medals. He was knighted in 1999 and received the Legion d'honneur in 2003.