Image by 12019 on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Lee Hartwell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Leland H. Hartwell, Leland Harrison Hartwell, LH Hartwell
American biologist
OverviewAI-generated
Lee Hartwell was a male American geneticist, biologist, biochemist, and university teacher. Born in Los Angeles in 1939, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His professional career included positions at the University of Washington, Arizona State University, and the University of California, Irvine.
Hartwell was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also listed as an author of the work *Loose Leaf for Genetics*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Loose Leaf for Genetics
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,712x
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,636x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests
· 1951 · cited 29,927x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,682x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1939-10-30 ) October 30, 1939 (age 86) , Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Education
- California Institute of Technology , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Known for
- Cell cycle regulation
- Awards
- Rosenstiel Award (1992), Genetics Society of America Medal (1994) , Komen Brinker Award (1998) , Albert Lasker Award (1998) , Massry Prize (2000) , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001) , Mendel Medal (2001) , Medal of Merit (2003)
- Fields
- Biology
- Institutions
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , Arizona State University , Biodesign Institute , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- Thesis
- Studies on the induction of histidase in Bacillus subtilis (1964)
- Doctoral advisor
- Boris Magasanik
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2001
“for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle”
Shared · 1/3 portion
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lee
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- biochemist
- Employer
- University of California, Irvine
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- biology
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1939-10-30
- Erdős number
- 4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- biochemistry
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Leland Harrison "Lee" Hartwell (born October 30, 1939) is an American former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division (duplication) of cells.
Working in yeast, Hartwell identified the fundamental role of checkpoints in cell cycle control, and CDC genes such as CDC28, which controls the start of the cycle—the progression through G1.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lee Hartwell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.