The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978
Awarded on: 1978-10-17
"for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
Affiliations:
- Glynn Research Laboratories – Bodmin, United Kingdom
Peter D. Mitchell
Born: 1920-09-29 in Mitcham, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British biochemist
Biography
Peter Dennis Mitchell FRS was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his theory of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis.