Obituary - William Stanley Pierpoint (1930–2013)

摘要

Stan, as he was always known, joined Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research), the agricultural research institution in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK, in 1954 beginning a 36-year career as a research biochemist and a lifelong association with Rothamsted. Stan studied, as he put it, “…biochemical entities, proteins, viruses and organelles, extracted from plants, mainly mature green leaves”. A common theme in his published work was to overcome the difficulty “of extracting such entities, unaltered and in their functional state, from the complex milieu of disintegrated, homogenized tissue and the specialized compartments within cells.” Stan succeeded and was the first to isolate intact mitochondria, capable of ATP synthesis.