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Martin Kamen

American biochemist and molecular biologist (1913–2002)

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Lived 1913–2002, aged 89Canada
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    15 languages
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    1913–2002
    Aged 89
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-21

Martin David Kamen was an American chemist who, together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. He also confirmed that all of the oxygen released in photosynthesis comes from water, not carbon dioxide, in 1941.

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