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Sir John Ernest Walker FRS FMedSci (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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"
John Walker (born January 7, 1941, Halifax, Yorkshire, England) is a British chemist who was corecipient, with Paul D. Boyer, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for their explanation of the enzymatic process that creates adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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John E. Walker. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997. Born: 7 January 1941, Halifax, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)” Prize share: 1/4. Work.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Cambridge. Education 1969 D. Phil in Biochemistry, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford 1965 B. A. in Chemistry, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford 1953-1960 Rastrick Grammar School, Brighouse, W.
John Walker is a renowned biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for his work on the rotary mechanism of the ATP synthase. He is also the Emeritus Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, where he studies the structure and function of the mitochondrial ATP synthase and its role in human diseases.
John E. Walker ’58 has been both an economics professor and a highly successful entrepreneur. Founder of Andesa TPA Inc., Walker is a pioneer of the information economy, whose business vision was a direct outgrowth of his economics training.
