John E. Walker

British chemist

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 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.[7]


John Walker

FRS FMedSci
Born
John Ernest Walker

(1941-01-07) 7 January 1941 (age 83)[1]
EducationRastrick Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Spouse
Christina Westcott (m. 1963)
ChildrenTwo
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University of Cambridge
ThesisStudies on naturally occurring peptides (1970)
Doctoral advisorEdward Abraham[5]
InfluencesFred Sanger
Websitewww.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john-walker

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