John E. Walker
Sir John Ernest Walker [4] (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.[6] As of 2015[update] Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.[7]
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| Born | John Ernest Walker 7 January 1941 (aged 85)[1] |
| Education | Rastrick Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Children | Two |
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| Institutions | University of Oxford Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Studies on naturally occurring peptides (1970) |
| Influences | Fred Sanger |
| Website | www |
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1998.[8]
References
- ↑ John E. Walker - Facts.
- ↑ John E. Walker. people.embo.orgEMBO.
- ↑ WALKER, Prof. John Ernest. Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com 1996A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anon. Sir John Walker FMedSci FRS. royalsociety.org (1995). London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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- ↑ Walker, John Ernest (1969). Studies on naturally-occurring peptides. University of Oxford. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.711292. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph020571011.[dead link]
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997.
- ↑ Walker, J. E.. Distantly related sequences in the alpha- and beta-subunits of ATP synthase, myosin, kinases and other ATP-requiring enzymes and a common nucleotide binding fold. The EMBO Journal 1 (8) (1982). p. 945–51. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1982.tb01276.x.
- ↑ John WalkerAcademia Europaea.