Calvin Melvin
Country United States
Category Chemistry
Year 1961

Calvin Melvin, 1911 - 1997, Year won 1961, deciphered Photosynthesis.

Melvin Calvin was born in the United States of America in 1911.

Melvin Calvin received the 1961 Nobel prize in chemistry, “for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants,” in which he detailed the chemical reactions participating in the process of photosynthesis.

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