Chronology

1914 World War I begins; the Biochemistry Department is formed at Cambridge with Professor Hopkins as Chairman; Christopher and Kate Mitchell marry.

1916 Christopher John Mitchell (Bill) is born. 1920 Peter Dennis Mitchell is born in Mitcham, near London (September 29). 1921 Jennifer Moyle is born in Norwich.

1926 Peter begins Streatham Grammar School.

1927 He is transferred to the Barrow Hedges School.

1931 Peter enters the junior school of Queens College, Taunton. 1933 He enters the senior school of Queens.

1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins; Peter Mitchell enters Jesus College and Jennifer Moyle enters Girton College of Cambridge University.

1941 John Gayer-Anderson and Quinton Geering enter Jesus College; Peter joins the Natural Sciences Club.

1942 Jennifer graduates and enters military service.

1943 Peter receives the Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences and enters graduate school in Biochemistry; Professor Hopkins resigns the Chairman-ship of Biochemistry; Professor Chibnall takes over.

1944 Peter and Eileen marry; Professor Hopkins dies.

1945 World War II ends; Peter and Eileen move to 60 Grange Road.

1947 Jennifer returns from the service; enters the Biochemistry Department as Marjory Stevensonıs assistant. Helen marries Pat Robertson.

1949 Professor Chibnall resigns the Chairmanship of the Biochemistry Department; Professor Young takes over; Marjory Stevenson dies; Jennifer begins work as Peterıs assistant.

1950 Peter receives his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and becomes demonstrator in the Biochemistry Department.

1951 The Mitchells, Robertsons and others take a vacation together in Southern France.

1952 Jennifer becomes Malcolm Dixonıs assistant, working on isocitrate dehydrogenase.

1955 Peter and Jennifer move to Edinburgh; Jennifer begins her Ph.D. work.

1958 Peter and Helen get married (November 1); Jennifer receives her Ph.D. degree in Zoology; Peter and she publish the group translocation hypothesis.

1959 Peter publishes his symport concept (the second chemiosmotic hypothesis).

1960 Peter published the first elements of the H+-driven ATP synthase hypothesis.

1961 Peter publishes the essence of his hypothesis concerning energy coupling in oxidative and photosynthetic phosphorylation (the first chemiosmotic hypothesis); Glynn Mill is bought as a vacation house.

1962 Peter is awarded a lectureship in Zoology; he falls ill with ulcers; the Mitchells move to Cornwall.

1963 Jennifer moves permanently to Glynn; restoration of Glynn House is initiated.

1964 The bacterial phosphotransferase system, a group translocating system, is discovered (Kundig et al.).

1965 The Glynn Research Foundation is established; laboratory work begins.

1970 Lactose H+ symport in E. coli is established (West).

1974 Peter publishes his proposal on the Q cycle.

1978 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Peter.

1983 Jennifer retires to Norwich. The Glynn Conference on cytochrome oxidase vesicles takes place.

1988 Peter proposes a novel mechanism for cytochrome oxidase.

1990 Silver jubilee (twenty-fifth anniversary) of the Glynn Research Foundation.