The complex history of the chemiosmotic theory

Michel Morange (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

The fascination of the Mitchell hypothesis does not fade when one reads the abundant literature which has already been produced on this story. Indeed, the opposite is true. This extraordinary scientific adventure can be considered from many different points of view. The first focuses on the man, and his apparent solitary fight against the majority of specialists in the field.

Mots clés: Chemiosmotic hypothesis; interdisciplinarity; Karl Popper; Peter Mitchell; theory construction

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Michel Morange. The complex history of the chemiosmotic theory. Journal of Biosciences, 2007, 32 (3), pp.1245-1250. ⟨10.1007/s12038-007-0133-x⟩. ⟨halshs-00791760⟩