Died 99-year-old Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 1997, Jens Scowe. This is reported by the site of the University of Aarhus, in which the scientist was an honorary professor.

"The achievements of Jens Christian Skou as a researcher and as a person will always be a source of pride for the Aarhus University. Not least after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 as a result of a very successful scientific career. The work of Jens Christian Skou is of key importance for scientific research in the field of health, "wrote the rector of the University of Brian Bech Nielsen.

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Skou with the formulation "for the discovery of the ion transport enzyme, Na +, K + -ATPase".

The main discovery of his life Skou committed in 1957, discovering the first ion pump - an enzyme that creates a direct transport of ions through the cell membrane. Following the discovery of this pump followed by the discovery of other mechanisms.

Earlier, at the age of 76, the Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology died, British biologist John Salston.

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