Peter Dennis Mitchell:
Peter Dennis Mitchell was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 29, 1920 in Mitcham, Surrey, England
Death:
April 10, 1992 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England
Claim to Fame:
Mitchell was a British chemist who described the method adenosine diphosphate (ADP) is converted into adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in a cell. He was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of this work. He discovered the process known as oxidative phosphorylation while investigating the mitochondrion, the organelle that produces energy for the cell.
