Wandering in the gardens of the mind: Peter Mitchell and the making of Glynn

John Prebble, Bruce Weber9780195142662, 0195142667

Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics. This is the only full biography of Mitchell, and it should be of considerable interest tobiophysicists, biochemists, and physicians and researchers focusing on metabolism, as well as historians of medicine and biology.