David G. Nicholls One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is Professor

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Mitochondrial A mitochondrion (; ) is an organelle found in the cells of most Eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. Mitochondria have a double membrane structure and use aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is use ...

Physiology at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California. His research focuses on chemiosmosis proposed by

Peter D. Mitchell 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 discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis. Education and early life Mitc ...

to couple the

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. His explanation of chemiosmotic theory in the textbook ''Bioenergetics'' has become the standard text in the field. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge".

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