Tim Hunt
British biochemist; Nobel laureate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS FMedSci FRSE MAE (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells. While studying fertilized sea urchin eggs in the early 1980s, Hunt discovered cyclin, a protein that cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles.
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Born | Richard Timothy Hunt (1943-02-19) 19 February 1943 (age 81)[1] |
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Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
Known for | Cell cycle regulation |
Spouse | [1] |
Children | Two daughters[1] |
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Fields | Cell cycle[5] (Biochemistry) |
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Thesis | The synthesis of haemoglobin (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Asher Korner[6] |
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