The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2001
Leland Hartwell, Timothy Hunt and Sir Paul Nurse awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.
Oct 7, 2001
Timothy Hunt FRS and Sir Paul Nurse FRS of The Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, and Leland Hartwell of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA were today (8 October 2001) awarded the 100th Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work identifying the key regulatory molecules of the cell cycle.
In a sequence of experiments with the yeast