Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt

British biochemist; Nobel laureate
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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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Tim Hunt was born on Friday, 19 February 1943 in Neston, Cheshire, England. They are best known as a scientist. Hunt's country of citizenship (nationality) is British. Tim Hunt is 81 years old and their zodiac star sign are Aquarius.

You can find people similar to Tim Hunt by visiting our lists Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and Academics of the Francis Crick Institute.

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