The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-08
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
Affiliations:
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund – London, United Kingdom
Tim Hunt
Born: 1943-02-19 in Neston, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British biochemist; Nobel laureate
Biography
Sir Richard Timothy Hunt 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.