Nick Lane
Biochemist and science writer
Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer who works on evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He wrote Oxygen and Power, Sex, Suicide.
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British Born 1967 in the United Kingdom
About Nick Lane
Nick Lane was born in 1967 and is a British biochemist and writer. At University College London (UCL) he holds a professorship in evolutionary biochemistry, and he studied biochemistry at Imperial College London. His research looks at how energy production in cells relates to the origin of life and the evolution of cells. Oxygen, published in 2002, traces the history of life's relationship with our planet and with oxygen. Power, Sex, Suicide followed in 2005 and explores how mitochondria shaped the evolution of complex life. His later book Life Ascending received the Royal Society's science book prize for 2010. In 2016 he received the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science.