Peter D. Mitchell
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Peter D. Mitchell was a British biochemist who discovered how cells generate energy by using electrical gradients across membranes, a process that fundamentally changed our understanding of how living organisms work. His theory explained the mechanism behind cellular respiration and earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1978, making it one of the most important breakthroughs in modern biology.
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- Born
- 1920-09-29
- Died
- 1992-04-10
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5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,576x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,104x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
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Peter Dennis Mitchell FRS (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.
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1920 births1992 deaths20th-century British biochemists20th-century English chemistsAcademics of the University of EdinburghAlumni of Jesus College, CambridgeBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesEnglish biochemistsEnglish Nobel laureatesForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesIndependent scholars