Boyer, Paul Delos
Boyer, Paul Delos,
1918–2018, American biochemist, b. Provo, Utah, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, 1943. Boyer taught at the Univ. of Minnesota, first in Saint Paul (1946–56) and then in Minneapolis (1956–63), and at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles (1963–89, emeritus from 1990). He conducted research into enzymes and spent many years studying adenosine triphosphateadenosine triphosphate(ATP) , organic compound composed of adenine, the sugar ribose, and three phosphate groups. ATP serves as the major energy source within the cell to drive a number of biological processes such as photosynthesis, muscle contraction, and the synthesis of
..... Click the link for more information. (ATP), which functions as an energy carrier in all living organisms and is important in all reactions that require energy, including building cell components, contracting muscles, and transmitting nerve messages. His explanation of how the catalytic enzyme ATP synthase facilitated the chemical process that produces ATP led to his receiving the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John WalkerWalker, Sir John Ernest,
1941–, English biochemist, Ph.D. Oxford, 1969. He has been a researcher at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1974. In 1997 Walker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Boyer and Jens Skou.
..... Click the link for more information. and Jens SkouSkou, Jens Christian,
1918–2018, Danish chemist, M.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1944, Ph.D. Univ. of Aarhus, 1954. Skou was on the faculty at the Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark, from 1947 until he retired in 1988.
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