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Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark. He graduated in medicine from the University of Copenhagen in 1944 and received his doctorate in 1954. He began working at the University of Aarhus in 1947 and was appointed professor of biophysics in 1977. He retired from the University of Aarhus in 1988, but has kept his offices at the institute.

In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in ChemistryList of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External link http://www. se/chemistry/laureates/i (together with Paul D. BoyerPaul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Boyer was born in Provo, Utah. He received a B. degree in chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1939 and obtained a Wis and John E. Walker ) for his discovery of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPaseNaKATPase (also known as the Na+/K+ pump or Na+/K+ exchanger is an enzyme ( EC ) located in the plasma membrane (specifically an electrogenic transmembrane ATPase). It is found in the plasma membrane of virtually every human cell and is common to all cell.