| RefNo | EC/1977/28 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XX, 73 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Postgate, John Raymond: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1973 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Postgate has initiated some, and advanced many, areas of microbiology. He published the first serious biochemical studies of the sulphate-reducing bacteria and discovered cytochrome c-3 (the first cytochrome to be discovered in an anaerobe and the first low-potential cytochrome). He was the first to describe several new types of micro-organisms and has rationalized their manipulation and classification. His studies of the death of vegetative bacteria from starvation and cold have greatly enriched our understanding, as have his demonstrations of population effects, cryptic growth, substrate-accelerated death and 'moribund' steady states, in continuous cultures. Postgate also discovered protection by detergents from freezing damage. His recent studies of nitrogen fixation provided the first evidence for the direct involvement of metals; he has made major contributions by his purification of the nitrogenase of K. pneumoniae, by his demonstrations of oxygen exclusion mechanisms in Azotobacter, and by his recent success in transferring genes that specify nitrogen fixation from K. pneumoniae to E. coli. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1705 | Postgate; John Raymond (1922 - 2014) | 1922 - 2014 |