Tim Hunt Quotes


I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.


Citations

Hunt, Tim. "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Interview." Nobelprize.org, Nobel Media AB, 2001.

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Tim Hunt
Tim Hunt
  • Born: February 19, 1943
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Scientist

Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS FMedSci FRSE MAE 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.