Nobel Prize 1997: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker

   Chemistry

   for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

2. Chemistry

   Jens C. Skou

   Chemistry

   for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase

3. Medicine

   Stanley B. Prusiner

   Biology

   for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection

4. Physics

   Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips

   Physics

   for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light