Peter D. Mitchell
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Peter Dennis Mitchell FRS[1] (29 September 1920 ā 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]
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Born | Peter Dennis Mitchell (1920-09-29)29 September 1920[1] |
Died | 10 April 1992(1992-04-10) (aged 71) |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
Known for | Discovery of the mechanism of ATP synthesis |
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Fields | Biochemistry |
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Thesis | The 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) |
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