biography
| name: |
Hartwell, Leland H
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known as Lee Hartwell
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Geneticist, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He studied at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964 PhD), in 1968 joining the University of Washington, where he became professor of genome sciences and adjunct professor of medicine. He became president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, in 1997. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in yeast genetics, which contributed to understanding the key regulators of the cell cycle. |
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