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Tim Hunt
Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, is an English biochemist and molecular physiologist. He received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell gives their discovery of the protein molecules that control cell division. While studying fertilized sea urchin eggs in the early 1980s, Hunt discovered cyclin, a protein that is cyclic and depleted during cell division cycles.
BornRichard Timothy Hunt, February 19, 1943, Neston, Cheshire, England
ResidenceEngland
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
FieldsCell cycle
InstitutionsLondon Research Institute, University College London, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, University of Cambridge, Marine Biological Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute
EducationDragon School, Magdalen College School, Oxford
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
ThesisThe synthesis of haemoglobin (1969)
Doctoral studentsHugh Pelham, Jonathon Pines
Known forCell cycle regulation
InfluencedAnne Ridley
Notable awardsEMBO Member (1978), FRS (1991), FMedSci (1998), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001), FRSE (2003), Royal Medal (2006), Knight Bachelor (2006)
ChildrenTwo daughters

About Tim Hunt

Biologist Tim Hunt was born in England on February 19, 1943. He's 81 years old today.

British biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for discovering protein molecules that orchestrate cell replication. The Queen knighted him in 2006 and awarded him the Royal medal.

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Tim Hunt before becoming famous

Tim Hunt was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Water-Bearer), and 1943 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Goat (羊).

He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Clare College, Cambridge, with a thesis on hemoglobin production.

Achievement of Tim Hunt

In 1990, he started working at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in England.

Tim Hunt's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Kit Rowland and paleography professor Richard William Hunt were his parents.

Tim Hunt Collabed with

Hunt, Geneticist Paul Nurse, and Leland H. Hartwell were all instrumental in the discovery of protein molecules that regulate cell division, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared by the three men in 2001.

Tim Hunt Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Tim Hunt updated on March 22 2023.