Jens Christian Skou - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1997
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Jens Christian Skou

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1997
for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
English, Danish
date of birth
10/8/1918
place of birth
Lemvig
date of death
5/28/2018
place of death
Aarhus
Lived
99 years
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1988
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1993
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • The Japanese Biochemical Society
  • American Physiological Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
educated at
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Aarhus University
field of work
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • physiologist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • autobiographer
  • biophysicist
employer
  • Aarhus University
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