The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961
Awarded on: 1961-11-02
"for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
Melvin Calvin
Born: 1911-04-08 in St. Paul, MN, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist
Biography
Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.