Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978
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Peter D. Mitchell
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978 was awarded to Peter D. Mitchell "for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
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