Paul Delos Boyer ( Eng. Paul Delos Boyer ; July 31, 1918 , Provo , Utah , USA - June 2, 2018 ) - American chemist, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry 1997 for discovering the enzymatic character of ATP synthesis. He shared it with the English chemist John Walker .
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| Place of Birth | Provo ( Utah , United States ) |
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| Scientific field | biochemistry |
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| Alma mater | Brigham Young University |
| Known as | discovered the enzymatic character of ATP synthesis |
| Awards and prizes | Weizmann Memorial Lectures (1984)  Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( 1997 ) |
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1970) [7] .
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Biography and scientific work
Paul Delos Boyer was born in 1918 in Provo , Utah . In 1939, he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Brigham Young University , and in 1943 he defended his thesis on biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . After that, he began an independent scientific career at the University of Minnesota , where he introduced kinetic, isotopic and chemical research methods to the study of the mechanism of action of enzymes. In 1963 he became a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles . Here, Boyer investigated the mechanism of ATP synthesis, for which in 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Walker .
Social activities
In 2016, he signed a letter calling for Greenpeace , the United Nations and governments around the world to stop fighting genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) [8] [9] [10] .
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Paul D. Boyer - Facts
- ↑ http://www.nndb.com/org/290/000161804/
- ↑ http://www.nndb.com/people/804/000100504/
- ↑ http://www.nndb.com/people/807/000100507/
- ↑ Paul D. Boyer (English)
- ↑ 107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs
- ↑ Laureates Letter Supporting Precision Agriculture (GMOs)
- ↑ List of Nobel laureates who signed the letter
Links
- Autobiography of Paul Boyer on the website of the Nobel Committee (eng.)
- McFadden, Robert D .. Paul D. Boyer, 99, Dies; Nobel Winner Decoded Enzyme That Powers Life (eng.) , The New York Times (June 7, 2018). The appeal date is April 7, 2019.