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John E. Walker
British chemist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir John Ernest Walker FRS FMedSci[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 (1941-01-07) 7 January 1941 (age 83)[1] |
Education | Rastrick Grammar School |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
Spouse |
Christina Westcott ā (m. 1963) |
Children | Two |
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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[5] |
Influences | Fred Sanger |
Website | www |
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