The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

Paul D. Boyer

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Prize share: 1/4

John E. Walker

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Prize share: 1/4

Jens C. Skou

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997 was divided, one half jointly to Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" and the other half to Jens C. Skou "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase"

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