Hunt was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE). In 2006, he was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal, two of which are presented annually for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge", in his case for "discovering a key aspect of cell cycle control, the protein cyclin which is a component of cyclin dependent kinases, demonstrating his ability to grasp the significance of the result outside his immediate sphere of interest". Hunt was knighted in the 2006 Birthday Honours for his service to science. Personal life Hunt is married to the immunologist Mary Collins, who is provost of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. The couple have two daughters. Selected publications References External links Since winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001, Hunt has lectured regularly about the joys of scientific discovery. At the 2010 Lindau Meeting, Hunt participated in a Nature video about systems biology. "Meeting the 'systems' skeptic – with Tim Hunt" In July 2015, the historian/anthropologist Alan Macfarlane conducted two in-depth interviews with Tim Hunt: – Part One, 7 July – Part Two, 28 July including the Nobel Lecture 9 December 2001 Protein Synthesis, Proteolysis, and Cell Cycle Transitions 1943 births Living people People from Neston People educated at The Dragon School People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge English biochemists English biologists Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Fellows of the Royal Society Royal Medal winners Knights Bachelor English Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Academics of the Francis Crick Institute