Melvin Calvin
American biochemist (1911–1997)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Melvin Calvin cracked how plants turn CO2 into sugar—the Calvin cycle—and got the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. Spent fifty years at Berkeley turning photosynthesis into actual science.
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Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants". He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
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