Books by Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse is a British geneticist, chief executive and director of the Francis Crick Institute, and former president of the Royal Society. In 2001, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering key regulators of the cell cycle. He has received numerous other awards and accolades, including more than 60 honorary degrees and fellowships. He was knighted in 1999.

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What Is Life?

Paul Nurse

“What Is Life?” by Nobel Prize-winning British geneticist Paul Nurse is a brief but beautiful and profound exploration of the five great ideas that underpin biology: the cell, the gene, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry, and life as information. In just 160 pages, using his vast knowledge and personal experiences, Nurse sets a useful framework for analyzing the greatest mystery of all: life itself.

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