Sir John Walker | |
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 Walker in 2018 | |
| Born | John Ernest Walker 7 January 1941[5] Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Education | Rastrick Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Spouse |
Christina Westcott (m. 1963) |
| Children | Two |
| Awards |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Studies on naturally occurring peptides (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Abraham[4] |
| Website | www |
Sir John Ernest Walker (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who 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][8][9][10][11]
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- ^ Anon (1995). "Sir John Walker FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Walker, John Ernest (1969). Studies on naturally-occurring peptides. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.711292.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "John E. Walker – Facts".
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997".
- ^ John Walker interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 14 January 2008 (film)
- ^ Freeview Video of Fredrick Sanger in conversation with John Walker by the Vega Science Trust
- ^ A three part video interview with Sir John Walker by the Vega Science Trust
- ^ Walker, J. E.; Saraste, M; Runswick, M. J.; Gay, N. J. (1982). "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): 945–51. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1982.tb01276.x. PMC 553140. PMID 6329717.
- ^ John E. Walker publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)