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DESCRIPTION:Dr Tim Hunt\, joint winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiolog
 y or Medicine\, will be talking about the inspirations behind his life in s
 cience in the return of our popular ‘witness' events. 
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\nIn was in his
  weekly science lesson at the Dragon School near Oxford that Tim grew to fi
 nd biology an easy subject\, and from then on he felt he never really never
  had to make any more career decisions. When he was 14\, Tim moved to anoth
 er school where science played a much larger role in the curriculum. He lov
 ed Chemistry in particular\, and the class were allowed considerable freedo
 m\, on more than one occasion started fires from distilling volatile flamma
 ble solvents. 
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\nTim completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degree
  at the University of Cambridge\, before continuing research in the USA and
  the UK. It was in the USA in the summer of 1982 that he performed the all-
 important experiment that revealed a protein that served to regulate the ce
 ll cycle. That protein\, which announced itself by the unusual property of 
 disappearing at the climax of cell division\, he called ‘cyclin'. That di
 scovery dramatically advanced our understanding of the fundamental process 
 of cell division\, the process of life itself. And with that understanding 
 goes the practical possibility of intervening.
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\nHe now works at Cancer 
 Research UK where his research looks at how cyclin-dependent protein kinase
 s (CDKs) trigger cell cycle transitions\, and how the timing of cyclin prot
 eolysis is regulated.
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SUMMARY:How to win the Nobel Prize
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