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Paul D. Boyer

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American biochemist (1918-2018)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1918 to 2018 · aged 99
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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.

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1998Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
1997Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1989William C. Rose Award
1981Tolman Award
1974honorary doctor of Stockholm University
1955Guggenheim Fellowship
1955Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry

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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.

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Lived 1918 to 2018 · aged 99
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