<P> This was a radical proposal at the time , and was not well accepted . The prevailing view was that the energy of electron transfer was stored as a stable high potential intermediate , a chemically more conservative concept . The problem with the older paradigm is that no high energy intermediate was ever found , and the evidence for proton pumping by the complexes of the electron transfer chain grew too great to be ignored . Eventually the weight of evidence began to favor the chemiosmotic hypothesis , and in 1978 , Peter Mitchell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . </P>
<P> This was a radical proposal at the time , and was not well accepted . The prevailing view was that the energy of electron transfer was stored as a stable high potential intermediate , a chemically more conservative concept . The problem with the older paradigm is that no high energy intermediate was ever found , and the evidence for proton pumping by the complexes of the electron transfer chain grew too great to be ignored . Eventually the weight of evidence began to favor the chemiosmotic hypothesis , and in 1978 , Peter Mitchell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . </P>
the chemiosmotic theory for energy conservation in mitochondria and chloroplasts was proposed by
the chemiosmotic theory for energy conservation in mitochondria and chloroplasts was proposed by
Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell