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Melvin Calvin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Elias Calvin and Rose Herwitz, [4] Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire (now known as Lithuania and Georgia). At an early age, Melvin Calvin’s family moved to Detroit, MI where his parents ran a grocery store to earn their living.
Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1961) Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), pharmaceutical chemist known for development of oral contraceptive pills; Murray Eden (1920–2020), physical chemist
Melvin Calvin: Chemistry 1961 University of California, Berkeley: William C. Campbell: Physiology or Medicine 2015 Drew University: Mario Capecchi: Physiology or Medicine 2007 Howard Hughes Medical Institute: University of Utah: David Card: Economics 2021 University of California, Berkeley: Arvid Carlsson: Physiology or Medicine 2000 University ...
The Calvin cycle, light-independent reactions, bio synthetic phase, dark reactions, or photosynthetic carbon reduction (PCR) cycle [1] of photosynthesis is a series of chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen-carrier compounds into glucose. The Calvin cycle is present in all photosynthetic eukaryotes and also many ...
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This reaction was first discovered by Melvin Calvin, Andrew Benson and James Bassham in 1950. [1] C 3 carbon fixation occurs in all plants as the first step of the Calvin–Benson cycle. (In C 4 and CAM plants, carbon dioxide is drawn out of malate and into this reaction rather than directly from the air.)
Today coanchor Craig Melvin and Lindsay Czarniak turned their office romance into the real deal. “We met on set at our TV station, WRC in Washington D.C., and I had just gotten back from Beijing ...
Melvin Calvin: St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants" 1960 Willard F. Libby: Parachute, Colorado "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science" 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud: Chicago, Illinois, USA