Jens C. Skou (1918-2018)

Awarded the Prize “for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase.”

Danish biologist. Skou was born at Lemwig, Danmark on October 8, 1918. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen. In 1946 he joined the staff of the Institute of Physiology, Aarhus University, where he served as Professor of Biophysics from 1978 until his retirement in 1988. Skou died on May 28, 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark.