Tim Hunt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tim Hunt

Biochemist; Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Neston, England, United Kingdom

Profession: chemist, biochemist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.