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Paul Brakefield is an evolutionary biologist who studies butterflies and other insects. He is particularly interested in the effects of their development and physiology on natural selection. Paul has shown that…
Paul Sharp is a geneticist whose research focusses on the evolutionary origin of bacteria and viruses. He has carried out important work into the origin of HIV and its transmission from chimpanzees to humans. He also discovered that …
Paul Berg's fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids put him at the forefront of genetic engineering and earned him the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He developed a pioneering laboratory technique for combining DNA…
Paul Attfield is furthering our understanding of the electronic structure of solids through his notable experimental work. A central theme of Paul’s research is to discover how unusual conducting and magnetic…
Paul Harvey is an evolutionary biologist who has led the development of robust statistical methods to decipher evolutionary relationships. His work has applied a rigorous basis to the comparative method in evolutionary biology —…
Professor Paul Roberts FRS died on 17 November 2022.|Paul Roberts made important contributions to the theory of fluid mechanics, particularly when magnetic fields are present and thermal convection occurs, as is the …
Paul Lehner is a Clinician Scientist and Immunobiologist at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his medical degree from University College London and PhD from the University of Cardiff.
Paul Linden is internationally recognised for his studies of fluid flow. Through his work, Paul has advanced our understanding of oceanography and meteorology and answered environmental and industrial problems. He…
Paul Ehrlich began his career studying butterfly populations. With Peter Raven he coined the term and concept of coevolution — the reciprocal genetic adaptation of two species with close ecological interactions. But to the public…
Paul Mason is a physicist with an international reputation based on his research in several important areas of geophysical fluid dynamics and dynamical meteorology. His earliest work includes elegant laboratory studies of thermal…