The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997
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Paul D. Boyer
Prize share: 1/4
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John E. Walker
Prize share: 1/4
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Jens C. Skou
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997 was divided, one half jointly to Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" and the other half to Jens C. Skou "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase"
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