The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-08
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
Affiliations:
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – Seattle, WA, USA
Leland H. Hartwell
Born: 1939-10-30 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist (born 1939)
Biography
Leland Harrison "Lee" Hartwell is an American former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division (duplication) of cells.