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In conversation with.... Sir Paul Nurse

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  • Duration: 3 mins
  • Publication date: 17 May 2016
  • Part of series IET and RTS Joint Lecture

Abstract

The IET interview Sir Paul Nurse following his IET/RTS lecture "Science as Revolution". To watch the full lecture visit: https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=8559

“Science as Revolution” - Science has brought about revolutionary changes in our understanding of ourselves and the natural world, which have acted as major drivers of our culture and civilisation. This scientific knowledge has in turn brought about revolutions in the ways that we live and in the technologies that support society. A case can be made that science is the most revolutionary activity of human-kind.

Sir Paul will explain how scientific knowledge has brought about revolutions in the ways that we live and in the technologies that support society.

Keywords:
  • Darwin
  • Newton
  • environment
  • natural world
  • science
  • scientist

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  • Sir Paul  Nurse

    Sir Paul Nurse

    Sir Paul Nurse is a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and cell biologist.He studied Biology at the University of Birmingham before receiving a PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1973, focusing on amino acid pools Candida utilis.Since then, Sir Paul has spent time in laboratories in the UK and abroad, and has also worked as Professor of Microbiology at the University of Oxford and the Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK. He was elected President of the Royal Society in 2010, and is currently Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute.In 2001 Sir Paul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine alongside Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
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