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Nature 432, 557 (2 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432557a; Published online 1 December 2004
Turning points Wee beasties
Paul Nurse1
- Paul Nurse is in the Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York 10021, USA.
A major turning point in my scientific life involved not only a group of individuals (important as they were for what happened), but also a microorganism — or to be more precise, a mutant microorganism. The time was 1974 and the place was Murdoch Mitchison's laboratory in the zoology department at the University of Edinburgh.
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