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
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The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the simplest possible equipment and a microscope. Biochemical approaches were not much in vogue, and running gels impossible at first.
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Education and research is national, not E.U., business.
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Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.
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I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.
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Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.
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I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.
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I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.
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I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it.
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If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.
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In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.
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Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.
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Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
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Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.
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'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.