biography
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| lived:
| (1949– )
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| biography:
| Biochemist and cell biologist, born in London, UK. He studied at the universities of Birmingham and East Anglia (1973 PhD), and later at Bern., Edinburgh, and Sussex (1973–84). He headed the Cell Cycle Laboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London (1984–7) and returned to it in 1993 after a period holding a chair at Oxford. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to understanding the key regulators of the cell cycle. He was knighted in 1999. |
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