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:
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology – Cambridge, United Kingdom
John E. Walker
Born: 1941-01-07 in Halifax, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British chemist (born 1941)
Biography
Sir John Ernest Walker 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.