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题 目: 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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日 期: Thu Oct 16 15:08:27 1997
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标 题: 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry with one half to
Professor Paul D. Boyer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and
Dr. John E. Walker, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis
of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
and with one half to
Professor Jens C. Skou, Aarhus University, Denmark
for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase.
The three laureates have performed pioneering work on enzymes that participate
in the conversion of the "high-energy" compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker receive half the prize for their work on how
the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of ATP. Boyer and his
co-workers have proposed, on the basis of biochemical data, a mechanism for
how ATP is formed from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate.
Walker and his co-workers have established the structure of the enzyme and
verified the mechanism proposed by Boyer.
Jens C. Skou receives his half of the prize for the discovery of the enzyme
sodium, potassium-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase). This
enzyme maintains the balance of sodium and potassium ions in the living cell.
Both enzymes are bound to membranes in the cell and linked with the
transport of ions through these - but for different reasons.
Professor Paul D. Boyer was born 1918 in Provo, Utah, USA. Ph.D. in Biochemistry
1943, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. From 1963 to 1989 he was Professor
of Chemistry at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and from 1965 to 1983 Director of the
Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA. Since 1990 he has been Professor Emeritus
at Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty, UCLA. Boyer has been a member of
the National Academy of Sciences since 1970. He received an honorary doctorate
from Stockholm University in 1974 and in 1989 he was awarded the Rose Award of
the American Society
Dr. John E. Walker was born 1941 in Halifax, Great Britain. He received M.A.
and Dr.Phil. at Oxford University, Great Britain. Since 1982 Walker has been
Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
, Cambridge, Great Britain. He was elected to the Royal Society, London, in
1995.
Dr. John E. Walker
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Hills Road
Cambridge, CB2 2QH
UK
Professor Jens C. Skou was born 1918 in Denmark. He received his medical
training at Copenhagen University. In 1954 Skou received his doctoral degree
at Aarhus University, where he became Professor of Physiology in 1963. He was
oppointed Professor of Biophysics in 1977 at the same university. Skou is a
member of the Danish Academy of Sciences.
Professor Jens C. Skou
Aarhus University
Nordre Ringgade
DK-8000 Aarhus
Denmark
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