Peter Agre vs Jens Skou

Peter Agre is an American physician-scientist who conducted his Nobel Prize-winning research at Johns Hopkins University. He shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, specifically for the discovery of aquaporins. Agre identified aquaporin-1 as the protein responsible for selective water transport across cell membranes, s...

Jens Skou was a Danish biochemist at Aarhus University who was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Paul Boyer and John Walker. In the late 1950s, Skou discovered the sodium-potassium pump (Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase), an enzyme that uses energy from ATP to transport sodium and potassium ions across cell membranes against their concentration gradients. This ion pump is fundamental to nerve im...