The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
Jens C. Skou
Born: 8 October 1918, Lemvig, Denmark
Affiliation at the time of the award: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Prize motivation: "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase"
Field: Biochemistry