Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, FRS (born 25 January 1949) 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.
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- How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.
- in Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science with Paul Nurse, President of Rockefeller University, Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bruce Alberts, Editor-In-Chief of Science and Lisa Randall of Harvard University.
Newsnight 30th March 2011
- Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way:
- They show a great respect for experiment and observation,
- They don't cherry pick data,
- They take a skeptical approach to what they do.
- And then scientists work together to get a consensus as to what should be believed
- And that generates very reliable knowledge and that reliable knowledge drives innovation
- Source: BBC iplayer, 37 mins online
