Melvin Calvin Biography

Melvin Calvin biography

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NAME: Melvin Calvin
OCCUPATION: Educator, Chemist
BIRTH DATE: April 08, 1911
DEATH DATE: January 08, 1997
EDUCATION: Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Michigan Technological University, University of Minnesota
PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Paul, Minnesota
PLACE OF DEATH: Berkeley, California

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Melvin Calvin was an American biochemist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis.

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Melvin Calvin was born on April 8, 1911 in St. Paul, Minn. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota and began his Nobel Prize-winning work--using trace amounts of radioactive materials to map photosynthesis--in 1946. He designed the Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics (renamed the Melvin Calvin Laboratory) which he directed until his retirement in 1980. Calvin died in 1997.