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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

"for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"
"for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase"
Paul D. Boyer John E. Walker Jens C. Skou
Paul D. Boyer John E. Walker Jens C. Skou
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom Denmark
University of California
Los Angeles, CA, USA		 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom		 Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
b. 1918 b. 1941 b. 1918
 
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