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12-13-2010, 10:22 AM
Revealed: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Discovered his Sister was Really his Mother
All his life, Professor Sir Paul Nurse has known that he was different from the rest of his family. It wasn’t only that he had been born so much later than his three siblings, or that he alone excelled academically. From the earliest age, his fascination with science was a defining characteristic, one neither his father, a mechanic at the Heinz food factory in Neasden, North-West London, nor his mother, a part-time cleaner, shared.
Wandering through the park as a child he would notice that the leaves were larger on plants growing in the shade. When Sputnik 2 was launched into orbit in 1957, he stood transfixed in the garden of the family home, watching the Soviet Union’s second satellite make its journey across the sky. As he grew older, he often wondered where his passion for trying to make sense of the world around him could have come from.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1337908/Revealed-The-Nobel-Prize-winner-discovered-sister-really-mother.html
All his life, Professor Sir Paul Nurse has known that he was different from the rest of his family. It wasn’t only that he had been born so much later than his three siblings, or that he alone excelled academically. From the earliest age, his fascination with science was a defining characteristic, one neither his father, a mechanic at the Heinz food factory in Neasden, North-West London, nor his mother, a part-time cleaner, shared.
Wandering through the park as a child he would notice that the leaves were larger on plants growing in the shade. When Sputnik 2 was launched into orbit in 1957, he stood transfixed in the garden of the family home, watching the Soviet Union’s second satellite make its journey across the sky. As he grew older, he often wondered where his passion for trying to make sense of the world around him could have come from.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1337908/Revealed-The-Nobel-Prize-winner-discovered-sister-really-mother.html