Jens Christian Skou:
Jens Christian Skou is a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 8, 1918 in Lemvig, Denmark
Claim to Fame:
Skou was is a Danish biochemist who was awarded half the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the first ion-transporting enzyme. The enzyme he discovered is called sodium-potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase, or more simply, Na+-K+ ATPase.This enzyme acts as a pump that exchanges sodium ions for potassium ions in plasma membranes of animal cells.
