John E. Walker

Sir John Walker
Walker in 2018
Born
John Ernest Walker

(1941-01-07) 7 January 1941
EducationRastrick Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Spouse
Christina Westcott
(m. 1963)
ChildrenTwo
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University of Cambridge
ThesisStudies on naturally occurring peptides (1970)
Doctoral advisorEdward Abraham
Websitewww.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john-walker

Sir John Ernest Walker (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.