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Paul D. Boyer
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American biochemist (1918–2018)
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Paul Delos Boyer was an American biochemist and university teacher born in Provo in 1918. He worked as a chemist and analytical chemist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota. Boyer was educated at Brigham Young University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, and the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal. His work focused on biochemistry and chemistry. Boyer was recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He died of respiratory failure in Los Angeles in 2018 due to natural causes.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1997
“for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Provo
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- chemist
- Employer
- University of Minnesota
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Mormonism
- Field of work
- analytical chemistry
- Image
- Paul D. Boyer.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1918-07-31
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- birth name
- Paul Delos Boyer
- Commons category
- Paul D. Boyer
- date of death
- 2018-06-02
- cause of death
- respiratory failure
- interested in
- biochemistry
- name in native language
- Paul D. Boyer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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
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