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Also Known As Sir Richard Timothy Hunt
Born February 19, 1943 (age 82) • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2001)
Subjects Of Study cell cycle
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Leland H. Hartwell
American scientist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Horvitz, H. Robert
H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist
Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi
Italian physician and cytologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Albert Claude
Belgian cytologist
Brenner, Sydney
Sydney Brenner
South African-born biologist
Christian René de Duve
Belgian biochemist
George E. Palade
Romanian-born American cell biologist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Niels K. Jerne
Danish immunologist