Tim hunt nobel prize biography definition
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Tim Hunt
Sir Richard Timothy HuntFRS FMedSci FRSE MAE, (born 19 February 1943 in Neston, Cheshire), is an Englishbiochemist.
Nobel live
He is usually known as Tim Hunt.
Hunt shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on cell division. The prize was shared with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell. They had discovered the molecules which control cell division.
Tim hunt nobel prize biography definition
Cyclins are proteins that play a key role in regulating the cell-division cycle.[1] Hunt found that cyclins begin to be synthesised after eggs are fertilised. He also found that cyclins are present in vertebrate cells, where they also regulate the cell cycle.
Early life
[change | change source]At the age of eight he was accepted into the Dragon School, where he first developed an interest in biology thanks to his German teacher, Gerd Sommerhoff.
When he was fourteen he moved to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where the science prizes now bear his name.