The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997
Awarded on: 1997-10-15
"for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paul D. Boyer
Born: 1918-07-31 in Provo, UT, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist
Biography
Paul Delos Boyer was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" with John E. Walker, making Boyer the first Utah-born Nobel laureate; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase.