Melvin Calvin
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Melvin Calvin was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work explaining how plants convert sunlight into chemical energy through photosynthesis. His discoveries about the chemical pathways plants use to process carbon dioxide are fundamental to understanding how life on Earth converts light into the food and oxygen we depend on.
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- 1911
- Died
- 1997
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- 16
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- Oil from plants
- Osnovy kosmicheskoĭ biologii i medit͡siny
- Bio-organic chemistry
- Organic chemistry of life
- Bio-organic chemistry
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Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997) was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants". He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
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1911 births1997 deaths20th-century American chemistsAlumni of the University of ManchesterAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesCentral High School (Detroit) alumniForeign members of the Royal SocietyJewish Nobel laureatesManhattan Project peopleMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina