# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-d-boyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:23.352Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-d-boyer"
name: "Paul D. Boyer"
slug: "paul-d-boyer"
description: "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."
tagline: "American biochemist (1918–2018)"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1918-07-31"
deathDate: "2018-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump