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Danish chemist (1918–2018)

Jens Christian Skou (Danish pronunciation:[ˈjensˈkʰʁestjænˈskʌwˀ]; 8 October 1918 – 28 May 2018) was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.^[1]

Early life

Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark to a wealthy family.

His father Magnus Martinus Skou was a timber and coal merchant.

Danish biophysicist who (with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in for his discovery of the enzyme called sodium.

Danish biophysicist who (with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in for his discovery of the enzyme called sodium.

Nobel Laureate, medical doctor and physiologist Jens Christian Skou, was an ardent advocate for the need to carry out research in Denmark.

I had no scientific training when I started at the Institute of Physiology in It took me a good deal of time before I knew how to attack the problem I was.

Skou was born on October 8, , in Lemvig, in the western part of Denmark.

Skou was born in Lemvig, and on his 80th birthday in he was named an honorary citizen there.

His mother Ane-Margrethe Skou took over the company after the death of his father. At the age of 15, Skou entered a boarding school in Haslev, Zealand. He graduated in medicine from the University of Copenhagen in 1944 and received his doctorate in 1954.

He began working at the Aarhus University in 1947 and was appointed professor of biophysics in 1977. He retired from the Aarhus University in 1988, but kept offices at the Department of Physiology (today part of the Department of Biomedicine).

Career

In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) for his discovery of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase,