This one still seems relevant because Paul Nurse – now Sir Paul, a Nobel award, Presidency of the Royal Society, and other notable jobs later – is still a power in the land, scientifically, as head of the huge (and risky) Crick Institute in London. This profile of him was done before any of that […]
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Last week’s post recalled a DNA anniversary meeting 30 years that Francis Crick didn’t attend. That prompted me to dig out this lengthy interview with the man himself a couple of years later. My favourite profile piece? Probably. I wrote to him (one did in those days) while planning a trip to California. He rarely […]