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Paul Delos Boyer Bio

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Adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that is used to supply energy within cells.

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Paul Delos Boyer:

Paul Delos Boyer is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

July 31, 1918 in Provo, Utah

Claim to Fame:

Boyer is an American biochemist who shares half the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John E. Walker for discovering the enzymatic mechanism behind the production of adenosine triphosphate or ATP. ATP is the nucleotide that transfers energy during metabolic processes in cells.

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