Peter D. Mitchell

Peter Mitchell
FRCS
Born
Peter Dennis Mitchell

(1920-09-29)29 September 1920[1]
Mitcham, Surrey, England
Died10 April 1992(1992-04-10) (aged 71)
Bodmin, Cornwall, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Known forDiscovery of the mechanism of ATP synthesis
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
Institutions
ThesisThe rates of synthesis and proportions by weight of the nucleic acid components of a Micrococcus during growth in normal and in penicillin containing media with reference to the bactericidal action of penicillin (1950)
Signature

Peter Dennis Mitchell FRS[1] (29 September 1920 – 10 April 1992) was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his theory of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b c Slater, E. C. (1994). "Peter Dennis Mitchell. 29 September 1920 – 10 April 1992". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 40: 282–305. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0040. S2CID 72791163.
  2. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51236. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Antony Crofts (1996). "Peter Mitchell (1920–1992)".