Tim Hunt

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Sir
Tim Hunt
FRS FRSE FMedSci MAE
Hunt at UCSF in 2009
Born
Richard Timothy Hunt

(1943-02-19) 19 February 1943 (age 81)[8]
Neston, Cheshire, England
Education
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forCell cycle regulation
Spouse
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(m. 1995)​
[8]
ChildrenTwo daughters[8]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCell cycle[1] (Biochemistry)
Institutions
ThesisThe synthesis of haemoglobin (1969)
Doctoral advisorAsher Korner[2]
Doctoral students

Sir Richard Timothy Hunt (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.

  1. ^ Tim Hunt publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference huntphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Pelham, Hugh R. B. (1978). Transcription and Translation in Reticulocyte Lysates. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500538683. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.468626.
  4. ^ "Sir Hugh Pelham FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
  5. ^ Pines, Jonathon Noe Joseph (1987). Cyclin : a major maternal message in sea urchin eggs. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 499166627. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.233321.
  6. ^ Pines, Jonathon; Hunt, Tim (1987). "Molecular cloning and characterization of the mRNA for cyclin from sea urchin eggs". The EMBO Journal. 6 (10): 2987–2995. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1987.tb02604.x. PMC 553735. PMID 2826125.
  7. ^ "Dr Jonathon Pines: Department of Zoology". Cambridge: cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 May 2015.
  8. ^ a b c "HUNT, Sir Tim". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) [better source needed]