biography
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Mitchell, Peter (Dennis)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1920–92)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Mitcham, SW Greater London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, then taught there (1943–55) and at Edinburgh (1955–63), before creating his own research institute, the Glynn Research Laboratories, at Bodmin, Cornwall, in 1964 (from 1987 the Glynn Research Institute). In the 1960s he proposed an entirely novel theory of the way energy is generated at the molecular level in biochemical cells. Although at first greeted with extreme scepticism, his views became widely accepted, and his position was formally established by the award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1978. |
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