Tim Hunt Quotes


My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.


Citations

McKie, Robin. "Sir Tim Hunt: 'I've been hung out to dry. They haven't even asked for my side of affairs'." The Observer, Guardian News and Media, 13 June 2015.

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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.