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Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Boyer was born in Provo, Utah. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1939 and obtained a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Scholarship for graduate studies. Five days before leaving for Wisconsin, Paul married a beautiful and talented coed, Lyda Whicker. Together they have three children, Gail, Hali and Douglas, and eight grandchildren.
After he received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1943, he spent years at Stanford University on a war-related research project dedicated to stabilization of serum alubumin for transfusions. He began his independent research career at the University of Minnesota and introduced kinetic, isotopic, and chemical methods for investigating enzyme mechanisms. In 1955, he received a Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Each year, the foundation makes multi and worked with Professor Hugo Theorell on the mechanism of alcohol dehydrogenase. In 1956, he accepted a Hill Foundation Professorship and moved to the medical campus of the University of Minnesota. In 1959-60, he served as Chairman of the Biochemistry Section of the American Chemical SocietyFounded in 1876, the American Chemical Society ACS for short, is "a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 163,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry. The organization provides a broad range of and in 1969-70 as President of the American Society of Biological Chemists .
Since 1963, he has been a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. in 1965, he became the Founding Director of the Molecular Biology Institute and spearheaded the construction of the building and the organization of an interdepartmental Ph.D. program. This institutional service did not diminish the creativity and originality of his research program, which led to three postulates for the binding mechanism for ATPFor other uses of the initials ATP, see ATP (disambiguation Adenosine triphosphate ATP is the nucleotide known in biochemistry as the " molecular currency" of intracellular energy transfer; that is, ATP is able to store and transport chemical energy withi synthesis: i.e. that energy input was not used primarily to form ATP but to promote the binding of phosphateIn chemistry, a phosphate is a polyatomic ion or radical consisting of one phosphorus atom and four oxygen. In the ionic form, it carries a -3 formal charge, and is denoted PO3-. In a biochemical setting, a free phosphate ion in solution is called inorgan and mostly the release of tightly bound ATP; that three identical catalytic sites went through compulsory, sequential binding changes; and that the binding changes of the catalytic subunites, circularly arranged on the periphery of the enzyme, were driven by the rotation of a smaller internal subunit.
Paul Boyer was Editor or Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Biochemistry from 1963-89. He was Editor of the classic series, The Enzymes. In 1981, he was Faculty Research Lecturer at UCLA. He received the Rose Award of the American Society of Chemistry and Molecular Biology in 1989; Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stockholm (1974), Minnesota (1996), and Wisconsin (1998); and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
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