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Melvin Calvin

American chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry

Born on: April 8, 1911
Died on: January 8, 1997
Aged: 85 years 275 days (1029 months)
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Aries

 

Melvin Calvin

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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