John E. Walker
John E. Walker
Sir John Ernest Walkeris an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 January 1941
royal fellows
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
soccer school captains
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
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Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes.
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These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
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In 1978, I decided to apply protein chemical methods to membrane proteins, since this seemed to be both a challenging and important area.
degree received
In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.