Paul D. Boyer
Paul D. Boyer
Paul Delos Boyeris an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate"with John E. Walker, making Boyer the only 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 July 1918
CountryUnited States of America
A different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.
Minnesota has generally competent and honest public officials, good support of the schools and cultural amenities, and an excellent state university.
The information exchanged and gained at scientific conferences and visits has been tremendously important for progress in my laboratory.
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.