Tim Hunt
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Tim Hunt at UCSF in May 2009
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| Born | Richard Timothy Hunt 19 February 1943 Neston, Cheshire, England |
| Residence | England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Fields | Cell cycle |
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| Thesis | The synthesis of haemoglobin (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Asher Korner |
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| Known for | Cell cycle regulation |
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| Spouse | Mary Collins (m. 1995) |
| Children | Two daughters |
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Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS, FMedSci, FRSE (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. In particular, Hunt discovered what he called cyclin: a protein in fertilised sea urchin eggs which cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles.
Hunt was born on 19 February 1943 in Neston, Cheshire, to Richard William Hunt, a lecturer in palaeography in Liverpool, and Kit Rowland, daughter of a timber merchant. After the death of both his parents, Hunt found his father had worked at Bush House, then the headquarters of BBC World Service radio, most likely in intelligence, although it is not known what he actually did. In 1945, Richard became Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and the family relocated to Oxford. At the age of eight, Hunt was accepted into the Dragon School, where he first developed an interest in biology thanks to his German teacher, Gerd Sommerhoff. When he was fourteen, he moved to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where the science prizes now bear his name, becoming even more interested in science and studying subjects such as chemistry and zoology.
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