Paul Delos Boyer 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)" 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. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997, announced October 15, 1997. Paul D. Boyer (1/4), “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”. John E. Walker (1/4), “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”. Jens C. Skou (1/2), “for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase”. Paul D. Boyer: born 1918, Provo, UT, USA. John E. Walker: born 1941, Halifax, United Kingdom. Jens C. Skou: born 1918, Lemvig, Denmark. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).