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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...
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  • populations. Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist who discovered the Calvin cycle Melvin Day (1923–2016), New Zealand artist and art historian Melvin Hochster...
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    chloroplast in photosynthetic organisms. The cycle was discovered in 1950 by Melvin Calvin, James Bassham, and Andrew Benson at the University of California, Berkeley...
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    determine that the oxygen liberated in photosynthesis came from the water. Melvin Calvin and Andrew Benson, along with James Bassham, elucidated the path of...
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    cell respiration, also studied photosynthesis in Chlorella. In 1961, Melvin Calvin of the University of California received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
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    laureate Melvin Calvin and his colleagues used carbon 14 as a molecular tracer to reveal the carbon assimilation path in photosynthesis, known as Calvin cycle...
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  • with Melvin Calvin in the Bio-Organic Chemistry Group of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. He discovered, with Melvin Calvin...
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    discovered by Melvin Calvin, Andrew Benson and James Bassham in 1950. C3 carbon fixation occurs in all plants as the first step of the Calvin–Benson cycle...
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    Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Previous fellows have included Melvin Calvin, Benjamin Franklin, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watt, Thomas Reid, and...
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    discovered by Andrew Benson in 1951 while working in the lab of Melvin Calvin at UC Berkeley. Calvin, who had been away from the lab at the time of discovery...
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  • Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 Nobel Prize), Willard Libby (1960 Nobel Prize), Melvin Calvin (1961 Nobel Prize) and so on, turning Berkeley into one of the world's...
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  • Robert W. Cairns (1968) Wallace R. Brode (1969) Byron Riegel (1970) Melvin Calvin (1971) Max Tishler (1972) Alan C. Nixon (1973) Bernard S. Friedman (1974)...
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    Doudna (2020) George Smoot (2006) Yuan T. Lee (1986) Steven Chu (1997) Melvin Calvin (1961) Luis Alvarez (1968) Edwin McMillan (1951) Donald Glaser (1960)...
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    than a treatment. Its latex can also be used as fuel. This led chemist Melvin Calvin to propose the exploitation of E. tirucalli for producing oil. This...
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    Saint-John Perse Albert Lutuli 1961 Robert Hofstadter; Rudolf Mössbauer Melvin Calvin Georg von Békésy Ivo Andrić Dag Hammarskjöld 1962 Lev Landau Max Perutz;...
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    of California, Berkeley in 1948, taking courses from Glenn Seaborg, Melvin Calvin, and William Giauque. He graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science...
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    instructor in July 1942. In May 1946 he was invited to join the group of Melvin Calvin, who was then starting a photosynthesis group in Berkeley's Old Radiation...
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  • United Nations Foundation Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist; discoverer of the Calvin Cycle (see below) Samuel Calvin (1811–1890), Whig member...
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    by scientists and "leading thinkers", including Buckminster Fuller, Melvin Calvin, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Hans Selye, Marshal McLuhan and...
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    Frederick Sanger 1959: Jaroslav Heyrovský 1960: Willard Libby 1961: Melvin Calvin 1962: Max Perutz / John Kendrew 1963: Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta 1964:...
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  • by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." Melvin Calvin – University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin Cycle; Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry),...
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    dissertation director, as well as physicist George Gamow and chemist Melvin Calvin. The title of Sagan's dissertation reflected interests he had in common...
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    Boxer, first U.S.-born player drafted to the NHL Melvin Calvin, Nobel laureate and discoverer of the Calvin Cycle Chris Conner, NHL player Jill Dickman, Republican...
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  • organic compounds can arise spontaneously from inorganic ones (1953). Melvin Calvin and Andrew Benson delineate the path of carbon in photosynthesis using...
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  • Pauling, Peace, 1962 James D. Watson, Physiology or Medicine, 1962 Melvin Calvin, Chemistry, 1961 Robert Hofstadter, Physics, 1961 Georg von Békésy,...
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  • Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912) January 8 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911) January 9 Jesse White, American actor (b...
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    Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney...
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  • Musso, American football player and police officer (d. 2000) 1911 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) 1911...
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    Euphorbiaceae has been studied in detail by Dr. Melvin Calvin, Nobel Laureate, and discoverer of the Calvin Cycle. One particular tree of the genus Hevea...
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    Prize in 1957), for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes. Melvin Calvin (awarded Nobel Prize in 1961), for his research on the carbon dioxide...
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