John E. Walker
Sir John Ernest Walker FRS FMedSci[3] (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.[6] As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.[7][8][9][10][11]
Not to be confused with John Edward Walker.
John Walker
University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Two
- EMBO Member (1984)[1]
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997)
- Knight Bachelor (1999)[2]
- Copley Medal (2012)[3]
Early life and education[edit]
Walker was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Ernest Walker, a stonemason, and Elsie Lawton, an amateur musician. He was brought up with his two younger sisters (Judith and Jen) in a rural environment and went to Rastrick Grammar School. At school, he was a keen sportsman and specialized in physical sciences and mathematics during his final three years there. He received a 3rd class Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from St Catherine's College, Oxford.[12][13] Walker began his study of peptide antibiotics with Edward Abraham at Oxford in 1965 and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1969.[4][12] During this period, he became interested in developments in molecular biology.