Paul D. Boyer
Paul D. Boyer was an American biochemist that was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997. ...
Paul Delos Boyer was born July 31, 1918, in Provo, Utah. He was son of Dell and Grace Boyer. His father was an osteopathic physician, who, more by example than by word, taught Boyer logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline.
Boyer’s mother died in 1933-- just weeks before Boyer’s fifteenth birthday. ... According to Boyer:
“I am told that I had a bad temper…. ... Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry” (Boyer). Fifteen years after his mother’s death, Boyer’s father remarried.
Boyer attended school at Parker Elementary School. ... Boyer then went on to graduate at 16. ... Boyer’s application was approved, and the stage was set for a later phase of his career. ... Boyer, who had just turned 21, and Lyda Whicker, 20, were married on August 31, 1939. ... Boyer was diagnosed with appendicitis. Boyer’s appendix ruptured and he became deathly ill. ... This training environment set the base for Boyer’s career.
Boyer received his Ph.D. ... But Boyer was then drafted and became a member of the U. ... Boyer became the only seaman second-class that had a nearly private laboratory at the Navy Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. ...
In the spring of 1946, Boyer, his wife, along with their two daughters, Gail and Hali, became Minnesotans. Unknowingly, Boyer had acquired a latent California virus that would show up years later.
Boyer received the Award in Enzyme Chemistry of the American Chemical Society in 1955. ... But solving how oxidative phosphorylation occurred remained one the most challenging problems of biochemistry, and Boyer just couldn’t resist its calling.
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