Setting up a lab at home

[Jonathan B. Marder]

In article <42r9to$fof at cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
   sullivan at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Steven Sullivan) wrote:
>
>Didn't a British fellow win teh Nobel prize years ago for work on 
>mitochondria (respiration pathways) that he performed at home?  
Granted, 
>I remember being told that he was rather wealthy -- lived in a castle 
or 
>something.....
>
>
You are probably referring to Peter Mitchell - won the Nobel Prize for 
his chemiosmotic theory of energy coupling. Mitchell set up his own 
independent research centre in a remote part of Cornwall. I'm not sure 
if this is what you would call a home laboratory.

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