Background
Mitchell, Peter Dennis was born on September 29, 1920 in Mitcham, Surrey, England. Son of Christopher Gibbs and Kate Beatrice Dorothy (Taplin) Mitchell.
Mitchell, Peter Dennis was born on September 29, 1920 in Mitcham, Surrey, England. Son of Christopher Gibbs and Kate Beatrice Dorothy (Taplin) Mitchell.
Bachelor, Jesus College, Cambridge University, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, Jesus College, Cambridge University, 1950. Doctor of Science (honorary), Jesus College, Cambridge University, 1985.
Doctorate (honorary), Technology University Berlin, 1976. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Exeter, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1978.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Liverpool, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Bristol, 1980. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Edinburgh, 1980.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Hull, 1980. Doctor of Science (honorary), University East Anglia, 1981. Doctor of Science (honorary), University York, 1982.
Degree (honorary), University Aberdeen, 1990.
With department biochemistry Cambridge University, England, 1943—1955, demonstrator England, 1950—1955. Director chemical biology unit, department zoology University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955—1963, senior lecturer, then reader Scotland, 1961—1963, James Rennie Bequest lecturer Scotland, 1980. Director research Glynn Research Institute, Bodmin, 1964—1987.
Chairman, honorary director Glynn Research Foundation, 1987—1992. Sir Hans Krebs lecturer Federation European Bio-chemical Societies, 1978. Fritz Lipmann lecturer German Society Biological Chemistry, 1978.
Humphry Davy memorial lecturer Royal Institute Chemistry and The Chilterns and Middlesex section of Chemical Society, 1980. Croonian lecturer The Royal Society, 1987.
Author: Chemiosmotic Coupling in Oxidative and Photosynthetic Phosphorylation, 1966, Chemiosmotic Coupling and Energy Transduction, 1968. Also papers. Honorary advisory editor Bioscience Reports.
Fellow Royal Society (Copley medal 1981), Royal Society Edinburgh (honorary). Member Bio-chemical Society (Chemical Industries Basel medal 1973), Economic Research Council, European Molecular Biology Organization, United States National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), French Academy of Sciences (foreign), Society General Microbiology (honorary), American Society Biological Chemists, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Japanese Bio-chemical Society, Bio-chemical Society Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Married Patricia Helen Mary French, November 1, 1958. Children: Julia, Jeremy, Vanessa, Daniel, Jason, Gideon.