John E. Walker

Sir

John Walker

FRS FMedSci
Sir; John Walker; FRS FMedSci
	Walker in 2018
Born	John Ernest Walker; 7 January 1941; Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Education	Rastrick Grammar School
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Spouse	Christina Westcott (m. 1963)
Children	Two
Awards	EMBO Member (1984); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997); Knight Bachelor (1999); Copley Medal (2012);
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Cambridge
Thesis	Studies on naturally occurring peptides (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Edward Abraham
Website	www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john-walker

Sir John Ernest Walker FRS FMedSci (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.

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