John Postgate (microbiologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English microbiologist
Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1922
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 22-Oct-2014
Profession: microbiologist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About John Postgate (microbiologist)
- John Raymond Postgate (24 June 1922 – 22 October 2014), FRS was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex.
- Postgate's research in microbiology investigated nitrogen fixation, microbial survival, and sulphate-reducing bacteria.
- He worked for the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Nitrogen Fixation from 1963 until he retired, by then its Director, in 1987.
- In 2011 he was described as a "father figure of British microbiology".His admired popularizing book on microbes in human culture, Microbes and Man, first published in 1969, remains in print.
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