John Walker FRS FMedSci | |
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Born | John Ernest Walker 7 January 1941[1] |
Education | Rastrick Grammar School |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
Spouse | Christina Westcott (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 |
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]