Awards & Winners

Peter D. Mitchell

Date of Birth 29-September-1920
Place of Birth Mitcham, London
(London)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Peter Mitchell
Profession Chemist, Scientist
Peter Dennis Mitchell, FRS was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis. Mitchell was born in Mitcham, Surrey, England.

Awards by Peter D. Mitchell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter D. Mitchell.

1981


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his distinguished contribution to biology in his formulation and development of the chemiosmotic theory of energy transduction.)

1978


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory)