Education
| 1969 | M. A. and D. Phil degrees, University of Oxford |
Professional Career
| 1969-1971 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A. |
| 1969-1971 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A. |
| 1969-1971 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A. |
| 1971-1972 | NATO Fellow, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| 1972-1974 | EMBO Fellow, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 1974-1982 | Member of the Scientific Staff of The Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
| 1982-1987 | Senior Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
| 1987-1998 | Special Appointment, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. |
| 1998-2013 | Founding Director of The MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (formerly the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit), Cambridge |
| 1998-2013 | Group Leader - Proteomics and ATP synthase |
| 2013-present | Director Emeritus and Research Group Leader, The Medical Research Council's Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge |
Honours and Awards
| 1959 | A. T. Clay Gold Medal for academic distinction, Rastrick Grammer School |
| 1983 | Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| 1994 | Johnson Foundation Prize, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, U. S.. A. |
| 1995 | Fellow of The Royal Society, London |
| 1995 | SmithKline-Beecham Visiting Professor to the U. S. A. of The Royal Society of Medicine Foundation |
| 1995 | CIBA Medal and Prize of The Biochemic Society, London |
| 1996 | The Peter Mitchall Medal of the European Bioenergetics Congress |
| 1997 | The Gaetano Quagliariello Prize for Mitochondrial Research from the University of Bari, Italy |
| 1997 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (jointly with P. D. Boyer and J. C. Skou) |
| 1997 | Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
| 1998 | Member of The Academia Europea |
| 1998 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Bradford University |
| 1998 | Honorary Member of The Biochemical Society |
| 1998 | Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford |
| 1998 | Founding Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, London |
| 1998 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 1998 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Huddersfield |
| 1999 | Knight Bachelor |
| 1999 | Foreign Member of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1999 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology |
| 1999 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Oxford University |
| 1999 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Groningen University, The Netherlands |
| 1999 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Leeds |
| 2000 | Honorary Member of The British Biophysical Society |
| 2000 | Millennium Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2000 | The Messel Medal of The Society of Chemistry and Industry |
| 2001 | Honorary Professorship, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China |
| 2002 | Honorary Fellowship of The Institute of Biology |
| 2002 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Royal Holloway College, University of London |
| 2002 | Professor of Molecular Bioenergetics, University of Cambridge |
| 2003 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex |
| 2003 | Foreign Member of L'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy |
| 2004 | Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A. |
| 2004 | 2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Biomembrane Chemistry |
| 2004 | JSPS Award for Eminent Scientists, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2004 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Liverpool |
| 2006 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of East Anglia |
| 2007 | Honorary Doctor of Science and Professor, Moscow State University, Russia |
| 2007 | Doctor Honoris Causa, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France |
| 2007 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan |
| 2008 | Lifetime Achievement Award for the topic “Molecular mechanisms in mitochondrion and associated human diseases”. Awarded by GeneExpression Systems Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts, U. S. A. |
| 2009 | Fellow of the Science Museum, London |
| 2009 | Honorary Fellow, Society of Biology, London |
| 2010 | The Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 2010 | The Ahmed Zewail Medal, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U. S. A. |
| 2011 | The Skou Award, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 2011 | The Keilin Memorial Medal and Lecture of the Biochemical Society, UK |
| 2011 | The keys to the city of Bari, Italy |
| 2011 | The Gold Seal of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy |
| 2012 | The Copley Medal of The Royal Society, London, UK |
| 2012 | Honorary Gentle Scientist of the Mitochondrial Physiology Society, Austria |
| 2013 | Visiting Professor, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London |
| 2013 | Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand |
| 2013 | Honorary Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK |
| 2015 | Honorary Doctor of Science, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India |
| 2019 | Honorary Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society |
| 2021 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Cambridge |
| 2021 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Southern Methodist University, Texas, U. S. A. |