wandering in the gardens of the mind peter mitchell and the making of glynn

[...]... First published use of the term chemiosmotic 1961 Published the first version of the chemiosmotic hypothesis 1963 Resigned from appointment at Edinburgh University 1964 Established with Moyle Glynn Research Ltd and the Glynn Research Laboratories at Bodmin, Cornwall, England Beginning of the further evaluation of the chemiosmotic hypothesis 1966 The revised version of the chemiosmotic theory published... that was initially part of the Glynn House complex of buildings, and he won awards for the quality of the cream He also engaged in various quixotic activities such as minting his own silver Glynn pieces”; he initiated schemes, which did not come to fruition, for bottling and selling spring water from the estate, and he designed a windmill for electricity generation Mitchell the Scientist Much of Mitchell s... abiding metaphor for a living system was the flame, which is sustained as molecules pass into it, undergo reactions (burning), and pass out again as the products of combustion This gave him a three-dimensional view of molecules passing into a cell and undergoing metabolic reactions, then the products leaving the cell He saw the membrane as controlling these processes, and the study of movement of substances... illnesses of both father and son, the Mitchells sold their business, and Christopher Mitchell retired During the war, Godfrey served as a captain in the Royal Engineers, running quarries in the Pas de Calais using German prisoners as his workforce In 1919, shortly after returning from the war, with his father’s help, he purchased a small, insolvent construction company, George Wimpey and Company Ltd The. .. knighted in 1948 After the war, he further expanded the company’s operations, building Heathrow Airport and many other major projects in England and overseas In 1934 Wimpey went public, but Godfrey and his father retained 57 percent of the ordinary shares.3 Wimpey has subsequently become one of the largest contractors in Europe Gifts of shares of this stock became a major factor in Peter Mitchell s... and in haste because of the possibility of war The Mitchell family considered the Taplins to be social inferiors, which was to become one source of strain on e a r ly y e a r s a n d e d u c a t i o n 13 the marriage of Kate and Christopher Mitchell Unfortunately for the durability of their marriage, Kate and Christopher Mitchell were of different temperaments and interests in ways that clashed rather... there were informal and relaxed; the boys were encouraged to play in the garden, and no concern was shown if they got their clothes dirty Peter Mitchell recalled especially the odors in the Taplin home, of pipe tobacco, herbs, spices, and in the cellar an aroma of wood from his grandfather’s woodcarving hobby In recollection in 1991, Peter Mitchell recalled this home as having a slightly exotic, Middle... arranged for Peter to get violin lessons from a Miss King, a professional violinist, who came to Queen’s once a week for the lesson Peter played in the school orchestra and also sang in both the choir and the more advanced and demanding madrigal consort Mr Wiseman, in addition to being a skilled mathematician and mathematics teacher, with first-class degrees in mathematics and physics from Peterhouse... he did not seem to like reading, a feature evident from his school days The authors often refer to his interest in philosophy, but chiefly to his reading of Ogden and Richards’s Meaning of Meaning, and also to Popper and Heraclitus And he clearly did not join the many others who listened to the in uential lectures of Wittgenstein, Ayer, Russell, and others in Cambridge at the time Later, he did realize... conversation reflected a keen and nimble intellect interested in social, economic, philosophical, and religious matters These, apart from the last, were to become abiding concerns of Peter s, too Father Godfrey’s older brother, Peter Mitchell s father, Christopher, who also showed a strong aptitude in mathematics and science, received a B.Sc in engineering from the University of London Peter Mitchell recalled . alt=""  W andering in the gardens of the mind John Prebble Bruce Weber Foreword by Sir Tom Blundell W andering in the 1 2003 peter mitchell and the making of glynn Gardens of the Mind 1 Oxford. permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Prebble, John, 1944– Wandering in the gardens of the mind : Peter Mitchell and the making of Glynn / John. sketchy; they can be interpreted only with difficulty and some un- certainty. They were originally housed in binders, but by the time we saw them in the last days of the Glynn Research Institute, they