John Postgate (microbiologist)

For the English classicist, see John Percival Postgate. For the surgeon, see John Postgate (food safety campaigner).

John Postgate
In his laboratory
Born
John Raymond Postgate

(1922-06-24)24 June 1922
London, England
Died22 October 2014(2014-10-22) (aged 92)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Known forMicrobes and Man (1969)[6]
SpouseMary Stewart (1948-d. 2008)[3]
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAspects of the metabolism of micro-organisms (1952)

John Raymond Postgate (24 June 1922 – 22 October 2014), FRS[2][1] was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex.[7][8] Postgate's research in microbiology investigated nitrogen fixation, microbial survival, and sulphate-reducing bacteria. He worked for the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Nitrogen Fixation from 1963 until he retired, by then its director, in 1987. In 2011, he was described as a "father figure of British microbiology".[9][10]

His admired[11] popularizing book on microbes in human culture, Microbes and Man, first published in 1969, remains in print.

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  8. ^ Cambridge University Press, author biography
  9. ^ Cole, Jeffrey, A., "Legless pathogens: how bacterial physiology provides the key to understanding pathogenicity", The Fred Griffith Prize Lecture 2011, reprinted in Microbiology, 2012 Jun; 158(6):1402-13. doi:10.1099/mic.0.059048-0; PDF(subscription required)
  10. ^ Cole, J. A. (2012). "Legless pathogens: how bacterial physiology provides the key to understanding pathogenicity". Microbiology. 158 (6): 1402–1413. doi:10.1099/mic.0.059048-0. PMID 22493300.
  11. ^ Reed Business Information (7 August 1986). New Scientist. Reed Business Information. p. 48. ISSN 0262-4079. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)