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Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
Pages 96-115
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SEABORG AND ANDREW A BENSON ME~N CANON DIED IN Berkeley on January 8, 1997, at the age of eighty-five from a heart attack following years of clecTining health.
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As the radioautographs of the paper chromatograms (Radiograms) were developed, he tried to memorize their information, as well as the information related by the people doing the .
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to venture into new fielcis like hot atom chemistry, carcinogenesis, chemical evolution and the origin of life, organic geochemistry, immunochemistry, petroleum procluction from plants, farming, moon rock analysis, and development of novel synthetic biomembrane moclels for plant photosystems. By asking questions en c!
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no useful information on photosynthetic carbon dioxide reduction didn't bother him a bit. The most exciting was his thioctic acid theory of photosynthesis, which consumer!
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Like so many aspects of his research, it was sheer good fortune that he should suffer a coronary in a room with a distinguished physician, Nathaniel Berlin, and next door to lack Gofman, a physician and father of LDL and HDL serum lipoproteins and the consequent modern dietary concerns. Clearly, MeIvin's agile mind was working day and night, continuously churning through his data, plans, and deductions.
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the pioneering works of chemistry faculty member Sam Ruben en c! Racliation Laboratory staff chemist en c!
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Racliation Laboratory, was releaser! stepwise for Calvin's use for the photosynthesis research program, which interested Ernest Lawrence especially.
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the new Duolite A-3 anion exchange resin to the project. They fount!
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Such a category included phosphoglyceric acid with its phosphate and carboxylate anionic groups. One may get the impression that Melvin was never a hancis-on chemist.
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The prior labeling of fructose confirmed the predicted sequence of reactions. THE "UNKNOWN" SUGARS Two sugars separated on the paper chromatograms intrigued Benson, who examined their reactivities and recognized them as ketoses.
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THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON REDUCTION CYCLE Cyclic regeneration of the CO2 acceptor was basic to the thought of Ruben en c! Kamen en c!
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access to the upper echelons of American science en c! photosynthesis research in particular.
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In 1975 Professor Calvin served on the President's Advisory Group on Major Advances in Science and Technology. At the conclusion of that service, President Ford wrote to Calvin: Throughout the past nine months, while we were awaiting creation of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, you and your colleagues were of great assistance to me and to our country in focusing attention on issues vital to our Nation which have involved science and technology.
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Congratulations.2 At the memorial service for Melvin Calvin hell! on {anuary 25, 1997, in Hertz Hall on the Berkeley campus, Glenn Seaborg, one of the authors of this memoir, macle the following remarks: I met Melvin Calvin 60 years ago when he arrived at Berkeley in 1937 to assume his instructorship in the Department of Chemistry.
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Right after the war Melvin began his seminal research on photosynthesis using carbon-14 as a tracer, which led to his brilliant elucidation of this vital process. This culminated with his receipt in 1961 of the coveted Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Melvin's alma mater Michigan Technological University established in 1997 the Melvin Calvin Nobel Laureate Lecture, for which Glenn Seaborg was scheduled to give the first lecture in June ~ 998. THE AUTHORS GRATEFULLY acknowledge the helpful assistance of J
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XXI. The cyclic regeneration of carbon dioxide acceptor in photosynthesis.
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1962 The path of carbon in photosynthesis (Nobel Prize lecture)
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Photosensitized electron transport across phospholipid vesicle walls. Nature 274:507-508.
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