Sir Richard Timothy Hunt is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist, born in Neston, Cheshire, in 1943 and raised in Oxford. While studying fertilized sea urchin eggs in the early 1980s he discovered cyclin, a protein that rises and is destroyed in a cycle as cells divide. For discoveries of the protein molecules that control cell division he shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 and a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1999. He later resigned an honorary professorship at University College London after a controversy.
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Sir Richard Timothy Hunt (born 19 February 1943)
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Hunt discovered cyclin, a protein that cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles
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He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell
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He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell
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is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist
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is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991
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Hunt resigned from his honorary professorship at University College London
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is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist
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"year": "1943"
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"awardYear": "2001"
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