Everything about John E Walker totally explained
John Ernest Walker (born
January 7,
1941) is an English
chemist who won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
He was born in
Halifax,
Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Ernest Walker, a stone mason and Elsie Lawton, an amateur musician. He was brought up with his two younger sisters in a rural environment and went to
Rastrick Grammar School. At school, he was a keen sportsman and specialized in physical sciences and mathematics the last three years. He received a B.A. degree from
St Catherine's College,
Oxford.
He began study of
peptide antibiotics with Edward Abraham at Oxford in
1965 and received his Ph.D. in 1969. During this period, he became interested in the spectacular developments in
molecular biology.
From 1969–1971, he worked at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from 1971–1974 in France. He met
Fred Sanger in
1974 at a workshop at
Cambridge University. This resulted in an invitation to work at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council, which became a long-term appointment. Among the other staff was
Francis Crick, who was well known for his discovery of the molecular structure of
DNA.
At first, he analyzed the sequences of
proteins and then uncovered details of the modified genetic code in
mitochondria. In 1978, he decided to apply protein chemical methods to membrane proteins.
He shared his Nobel Prize with the American chemist
Paul D. Boyer for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of
adenosine triphosphate. They also shared the prize with
Danish chemist
Jens C. Skou for research unrelated to theirs.
He married Christina Westcott in 1963, and they've two daughters.
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