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Tim Hunt

1943 - Today

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Sir Richard Timothy Hunt (born 19 February 1943) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tim Hunt is the 330th most popular chemist (up from 383rd in 2019), the 1,582nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,058th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Tim Hunt ranks 330 out of 602Before him are Roger Y. Tsien, Torbern Bergman, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Louis Camille Maillard, Kazimierz Fajans, and Eilhard Mitscherlich. After him are Karl Friedrich Mohr, Frederick Abel, François-Marie Raoult, Martin Lowry, Roderick MacKinnon, and Nils Gabriel Sefström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tim Hunt ranks 155Before him are Richard Sennett, José Ángel Iribar, Jack Bruce, Chris Amon, Barış Manço, and Edie Sedgwick. After him are Bob Woodward, Armando Guebuza, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, R. L. Stine, Czesława Kwoka, and Dominik Duka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tim Hunt ranks 1,582 out of 8,785Before him are John Connelly (1938), John Entwistle (1944), Dick McTaggart (1935), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), and Ceawlin of Wessex (600). After him are Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Thomas Gresham (1519), Bill Ward (1948), Ian Rush (1961), Dave Gahan (1962), and Frederick Abel (1827).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Tim Hunt ranks 44Before him are Richard J. Roberts (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), William Henry (1774), Smithson Tennant (1761), Michael Smith (1932), and William Henry Perkin (1838). After him are Frederick Abel (1827), Martin Lowry (1874), William Prout (1785), Edward Frankland (1825), Charles Macintosh (1766), and Charles Hatchett (1765).