Melvin Calvin
American chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Born on: April 8, 1911Died on: January 8, 1997
Aged: 85 years 275 days (1029 months)
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Aries
Melvin Ellis Calvin 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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