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Paul D. Boyer was an American biochemist who lived from 1918 to 2018 and made fundamental discoveries about how cells produce energy. His work earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and fundamentally changed our understanding of biochemistry.
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- Born
- 1918-07-31
- Died
- 2018-06-02
- Works
- 37
Top works
- The Enzymes
- Oxidation and Reduction, Nicotinamide Nucleotide-Linked Enzymes, Flavin Nucleotide-Linked Enzymes
- Oxidation and Reduction, Metal-Porphyrin Enzymes, Other Oxidases, Oxygenation, Topical Subject Index
- Hydrolytic Cleavage, Phosphate Ester Cleavage, Acid Anhydride Cleavage, Phosphorolytic Cleavage, C--C Synthesis and Cleavage, Isomerization, Hydration and Dehydration
- Structure and Control : Kinetics and Mechanism
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Key dates
- Born
- 31 July 1918
- Died
- 2 June 2018
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Article
Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) 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)" (ATP synthase) 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.
Birth and education