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Family Secret of Nobel Prize Winner
Sir Paul Nurse, the prize-wining geneticist who discovered a secret in his own genetics
Sir Paul Nurse is one of Britain's best known scientists. He's a geneticist and president of the Royal Society. In 2001, he won a Nobel prize for his discoveries about how cells divide and multiply, but in 2007 he made a shocking discovery about his own genetics - a secret that had remained hidden for over 50 years.
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