Tim Hunt

Sir Tim Hunt FRS FRSE FMedSci MAE
Hunt at UCSF in 2009
Born	Richard Timothy Hunt (1943-02-19) 19 February 1943 (age 81)[11] Neston, Cheshire, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Education	Dragon School Magdalen College School, Oxford
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Cell cycle regulation
Spouse	Mary Collins ​ (m. 1995)​ [11]
Children	Two daughters[11]
Awards	EMBO Member (1978)[1] FRS (1991)[2] FMedSci (1998) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001) FRSE (2003)[3] Royal Medal (2006) Knight Bachelor (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Cell cycle[4] (Biochemistry)
Institutions	London Research Institute University College London Imperial Cancer Research Fund University of Cambridge Marine Biological Laboratory Francis Crick Institute
Thesis	The synthesis of haemoglobin (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Asher Korner[5]
Doctoral students	Hugh Pelham[6][7] Jonathon Pines[8][9][10]

Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS FMedSci FRSE MAE (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.