Tim Hunt
Tim Hunt
Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS, FMedSci, FRSEis 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. In particular, Hunt discovered what he called cyclin: a protein in fertilised sea urchin eggs which cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth19 February 1943
disruptive fallen lab love people playing science terribly
I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.