My life-long interest in astronomy started then and I still regularly use a telescope for astronomical observations, although very much as an amateur.
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I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.Paul Nurse
At the end of the 1980s as a complete surprise my old Edinburgh friend, Ed Southern offered me the Chair of Microbiology at the University of Oxford.
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I gradually slipped away from religion over several years and became an atheist or to be more philosophically correct, a sceptical agnostic.
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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
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At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
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After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
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