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Skou was born in Lemvig , Denmark in a wealthy family. His father Magnus Martinus Skou were timber and coal merchants. His mother Ane-Margrethe Skou took over the company after the death of his father. At the age of 15 Skou entered a boarding school in Haslev, Zealand . 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 Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker ) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS
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