The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP); and with one half to Jens C. Skou, for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na⁺, K⁺-ATPase.


	Paul D. Boyer University of California Los Angeles, U S A	John E. Walker Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, United Kingdom	Jens C. Skou Aarhus University Denmark

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Introduction » Life's energy currency, ATP » Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker » Jens C. Skou » History » Further reading »
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

The 1997 Prize in:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

Paul D. Boyer

John E. Walker

Jens C. Skou