Paul D. Boyer

Who is this?

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.

Career

1. 1918
   Born
2. 1955
   Won Guggenheim Fellowship
3. 1955
   Won Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
4. 1981
   Won Tolman Award
5. 1989
   Won William C. Rose Award
6. 1997
   Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7. 1998
   Member of American Philosophical Society
8. 2018
   Passed away
9. Member of National Academy of Sciences
10. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Provo
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: biochemist, university teacher, chemist