tim hunt
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Working AbroadTim Hunt,
Cancer Research UK
(Member of the ERC Scientific Council)
Growing up in Oxford...
Toulouse, France: Airbus assembly plant
Sindelfingen, Germany: Mercedes factory
The LHC, Geneva
The Large Hadron Collider, Geneva
Cambridge
The Old Cavendish
The Electron
The Proton
The Neutron
Splitting the Atom
The Structure of DNA
The Structure of Hemoglobin
The Old Laboratory of Molecular Biology
(1961)“Scientists are drawn to the LMB from all over the world,
creating a lively international community for the exchange of ideas and technical innovation”
Sydney Brenner, Cesar Milstein, Aaron Klug,
John Walker, Bob Horvitz, John Sulston, Andy Fire, Marty Chalfie, Roger Kornberg, Roger Tsien, Venki
Ramakrishnan
Fred Sanger Max PerutzFrancis CrickJim Watson
Pioneers from All Over the World
They did the impossible.
Travel Broadens the Mind
Travel Broadens the MindMel CohnLou SiminovitchArt PardeeGunter StentHerschel RomanDale KaiserDavid HognessBernie HoreckerJon Beckwith
Americans Abroad:The Pasteur Institute
in the 1950s and early 60s
“The job [at the EMBL, Heidelberg] was an extraordinary opportunity, one that I regret is not given to more young scientists at the beginning of their careers…… Those years were probably the most exciting, intellectually stimulating ones of my entire scientific career.”
Eric Wieschaus
Science knows no boundaries
The MBL. WOODS HOLE
