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Sir Tim Hunt FRS, FMedSci, FRSE (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. In particular, Hunt discovered what he called cyclin: a protein in fertilized sea urchin eggs which cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles.
Hunt was born on 19 February 1943 in Neston, Cheshire, to Richard William Hunt, a lecturer in palaeography in Liverpool, and Kit Rowland, daughter of a timber merchant. After the death of both his parents, Hunt found his father had worked at Bush House, then the headquarters of BBC World Service radio, most likely in intelligence, although it is not known what he actually did. In 1945, Richard became Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and the family relocated to Oxford. At the age of eight, Hunt was accepted into the Dragon School, where he first developed an interest in biology thanks to his German teacher, Gerd Sommerhoff. When he was fourteen, he moved to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where the science prizes now bear his name, becoming even more interested in science and studying subjects such as chemistry and zoology.
Marissa Semkiw of TheRebel.media and Anthony Furey discuss the forced resignation of Nobel Prize winner Sir Timothy Hunt, following allegedly sexist remarks he made at a conference in South Korea. Are women really so sensitive that they can't take a joke or are gender mania fanatics going too far? JOIN TheRebel.media for more fearless news and commentary you won’t find anywhere else. http://www.TheRebel.media VISIT our NEW group blog The Megaphone! It’s your one-stop shop for rebellious commentary from independent and fearless readers and writers. http://www.TheRebel.Media/TheMegaphone READ Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights -- Ezra Levant’s book about the Canadian Human Rights Commissions, censorship and the Mohammed cartoons was vo...
Nobel scientist Tim Hunt has been criticised for saying male and female scientists should be kept apart at work "because girls cry when they are criticised". Debate between Dr Emily Grossman and Milo Yiannopoulos.
We crossed live to London this morning where the city's Mayor has come to the defence of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Tim Hunt. Sir Tim faced a worldwide backlash after claiming the trouble with girls in the lab was that you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry. Sir Tim resigned, but Boris Johnson now wants him reinstated. UK correspondent Mel Davies joined Paul Henry with the latest. "Boris says that Sir Tim Hunt has been a victim of the British temptation to be offended. This is how he actually explained it: all the ferocious stinging bees of the Twittersphere have descended on one poor victim and stung him half to death. "The world's expert on crying says that women on average cry 30 to 64 times a year, men on the other hand...
Tim Hunt, a Nobel prize winner, was forced to resign for making a bland joke that made feminists cry. Jerry Seinfeld refuses to perform at universities due to "creepy PC culture" http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/10/watch-jerry-seinfeld-doubles-down-rants-about-creepy-pc-culture/
The second part of an interview of the Nobel prize winner Sir Tim Hunt, about his life and times. At the end he describes in detail the background to his sacking from his Emeritus Professorship etc. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane.
NOBEL LAUREATE LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR TIM HUNT I grew up in Oxford wanting to be a scientist, loving gadgets and processes like melting lead pipes or electrolyzing salt solutions to make poisonous and explosive gases. Luckily, I had excellent teachers who channeled these enthusiasms into a deeper and more formal understanding of chemistry and biology (physics, alas, was beyond my grasp) so that it was possible to study at Cambridge University and carry on there with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, on the business of the control of haemoglobin synthesis. I’ll explain how I arrived at this—it was an accident—and also where I pursued the subject. It took ten years, many interesting side roads, a lot of travel and a devastating fire to solve the problem of how the synthesis of haem was coordinated w...
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Recently Tim Hunt made some stupid remarks. According to him he was nervous and attempted to be funny. He ended up sounding like a misogynist, something he and his family and his colleagues swear he is not. The response to this has been disproportionate and vile. This knighted nobel prize winning scientist has been pressured to retire and is hounded by the press. Are we this sensitive? CNN's coverage: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/europe/hunt-women-scientists/ Tim and his wife's perspective (very revealing, especially on the timeline): http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hung-out-to-dry-interview-mary-collins The mayor of London and Richard Dawkins support Dr. Hunt (while Buzzfeed labels them 'apologists'): http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/tim-hunts-apologists...
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