the chemiosmotic theory for energy conservation in mitochondria and chloroplasts was proposed by
Chemiosmosis 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.[3]
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda
Stockholm Water Prize 2006: Professor Asit K. Biswas, The Third World Center for Water Management
Primary nutritional groups Phototrophs: Light is absorbed in photo receptors and transformed into chemical energy. Chemotrophs: Bond energy is released from a chemical compound.