Jens Christian Skou made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Jens Christian Skou as Danish chemist (1918-2018).
Jens Christian Skou was born in 1918. His recorded nationality is the Kingdom of Denmark. He was educated at University of Copenhagen.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as chemist, autobiographer and university teacher.
A scientific contribution counts if the next generation could build on it without re-checking.
His recorded fields of work are biochemistry.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997).
Working from the Kingdom of Denmark shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Jens Christian Skou died in 2018 at the age of 100. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1997
- Educated at University of Copenhagen
- Worked as chemist, autobiographer and university teacher
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