Sir Richard Timothy (Tim) Hunt, FRS, (b. February 19,1943) is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and Sir Paul M. Nurse for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. After attending the Dragon School and Magdalen College School (both in Oxford) Hunt received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1968. Wikipedia
I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts. nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2001/hunt-autobio.html
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