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Paul D. Boyer

1918 - 2018

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Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (ATP synthase) with John E. Walker, making Boyer the first Utah-born Nobel laureate; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul D. Boyer is the 156th most popular chemist (up from 184th in 2019), the 791st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,142nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Paul D. Boyer ranks 156 out of 602. Before him are Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Robert W. Holley. After him are Feodor Lynen, Antoni Grabowski, Katalin Karikó, Ei-ichi Negishi, Georg Wittig, and Edmond H. Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Paul D. Boyer ranks 30. Before him are Ken Miles, Martin Ryle, William Holden, Bertram Brockhouse, Jerome Karle, and Billy Graham. After him are Gunnar Sønsteby, Derek Barton, Frederick Reines, Muriel Spark, Chaim Herzog, and Rosalia Lombardo. Among people deceased in 2018, Paul D. Boyer ranks 34. Before him are Richard E. Taylor, Burton Richter, Günter Blobel, Avicii, Paul Bocuse, and Billy Graham. After him are Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Roy J. Glauber, Hubert de Givenchy, Arvid Carlsson, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Thomas A. Steitz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul D. Boyer ranks 791 out of 20,380. Before him are Keith Jarrett (1945), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edgar Cayce (1877), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), and James Cronin (1931). After him are David Lee (1931), James Woods (1947), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Benedict Arnold (1741), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), and Paul Cohen (1934).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Paul D. Boyer ranks 36. Before him are Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Jerome Karle (1918), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), and Robert W. Holley (1922). After him are Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Richard F. Heck (1931), William Standish Knowles (1917), Alan J. Heeger (1936), and Robert Curl (1933).

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