Jens Christian Skou
born 8 October 1918, Lemvig, Denmark

Academic qualifications

1944 Cand.med., University of Copenhagen
1954 Dr.med., University of Aarhus
1986 Dr.med.h.c., University of Copenhagen

Employment

1944-47 Clinical training at Hjørring Hospital and Aarhus Orthopaedic Hospital
1947-54 Instructor, Department of Physiology, University of Aarhus
1954-63 Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Aarhus
1963-78 Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Aarhus
1978-88 Professor, Department of Biophysics, University of Aarhus

Awards

The Leo award
The Novo award
Consul Ernst Carlsen's award
Anders Retzius's gold medal. The Swedish Medical Association
Eric K. Fernströms Store Nordiske Pris
The Prakash Datta medal. The Federation of European Biochemical Societies
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997

Memberships

Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina
The European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Honorary member of the Japanese Biochemical Society
Honorary member of the American Physiological Society
Academia Europaea