John Postgate (microbiologist)
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John Raymond Postgate (24 June 1922 – 22 October 2014), FRS[4][3] 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]
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Born | John Raymond Postgate (1922-06-24)24 June 1922 London, England |
Died | 22 October 2014(2014-10-22) (aged 92) |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
Known for | Microbes and Man (1969)[1] |
Spouse | Mary Stewart (1948-d. 2008)[2] |
Children | 3 |
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Thesis | Aspects of the metabolism of micro-organisms (1952) |
His admired[11] popularizing book on microbes in human culture, Microbes and Man, first published in 1969, remains in print.