A former pupil of a top Oxford school has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his contribution to cancer research.
Dr Tim Hunt, a former pupil of Magdalen College School, in Iffley Road, won the prestigious award for his work into how cells divide - a development which has opened the way to new treatments for the disease.
Dr Hunt, who lives in Hertfordshire, is head of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's cell cycle control laboratory.
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