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Jens Christian Skou
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Jens Christian Skou
Published Works
The work on anaesthetics, were described in a paper about the identification of the sodium-potassium pump. The paper was published in 1957. From then on his scientific interest shifted from the effect of local anaesthetics to active transport.
Later, he published two papers on Na+/K+-ATPase that granted him funding and other scientists to help with his research
Importance of his Discovery
Skou shaped the way we view cells. He is responsible for the information we have on active transport and how things are moved across the concentration and electrochemical gradient(s) in our cells.
His father died of pneumonia when he was 12
1957 described the identification of the sodium-potassium pump, which is responsible for the active transport of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane.
Research interest became concentrated around the structure and function of the active transport system, the Na+,K+-ATPase (sodium potassium pump).
Experiments
Became a professor of physiology at Aarhus in 1963 and was professor of biophysics there from 1977 to 1988.
Skou experimented on aproximately 25,000 crabs that he got from a local fisherman to study their nerve fibers.
Originally he was working on the effects of how anesthetics work on membranes but noticed proteins that carried sodium out of cells.
In 1997, Skou received the nobel prize in chemistry for his discovery of the ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase.
Living in Denmark
Jens Christian Skou is a Danish scientist. In the 1940s-60s he worked at a university where he studied the sodium potassium pump in cell membranes. This entailed boiling crabs everyday to study their nerve fibers.
Hank Green
25,000 Crabs
Response to his Work
The sodim potassium pump is widely accepted and he is credited with an influential discovery about the basic structure of animal cells.