“化学渗透学说”(Chemiosmotic theory)的创建人Peter Mitchell短暂患病后于今年4月10日在英国Glynn市因癌症逝世,终年72岁。美国康纳尔大学Hinkle和俄亥俄医院Garlid最近在《生化科学动向》(TIBS)上刊登了他们撰写的讣告。三十多年来,Mitchell为发展和维护他提出的化学渗透学院,在氧化磷酸化、光合磷酸化与主动转运系统的能量偶联等领域里进行了大量研究。 Peter Mitchell, founder of Chemiosmotic theory, died of cancer at the age of 72 in Glynn, England on April 10 this year after a brief illness. Hinkle at the University of Connecticut and Garlid at the Ohio Hospital recently published their obituary in the Biochemical Science Trends (TIBS). For more than three decades, Mitchell has done a great deal of research in developing and maintaining his proposed Chemical Infiltration Institute in the fields of oxidative phosphorylation, photo-phosphorylation and energy coupling in active transport systems.