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Melvin Calvin

            Melvin Calvin one of the most successful biologists to ever live.
             almost single handedly responsible for the discovery of photosynthesis. He also worked.
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             with the government on some very important projects during World War II. His .
             discoveries in the early 1900 still to this day influence how modern science is conducted .
             today.
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             Melvin Calvin was born in ST. Paul Minnesota on April 8, 1911, he was the .
             son of Russian emigrants. He had an early fascination with chemistry and how it affected.
             the world. This fascination with chemistry led him to attend Michigan's college of mining and technology. He graduated with his bachelor's degree 1931. After obtaining his degree he decided to attend the University of Minnesota to go to graduate school. Here he studied the electron affinity of various halogens, he obtained his doctorate in chemistry in 1935. .
             After Calvin received his doctorate he decided to go to England to continue his education. He decided to attend a post doctorate fellow at the University of Mandeste.
             in England. This is where he became very interested in photosynthesis. Professor Michael Polanyi was the one who introduced him to photosynthesis. He stayed in England for two years studying the way that photosynthesis affects everyday life. He returned to the states in 1937 and took a position at Berkeley as the instructor of chemistry. He helped write a few books over the next ten years with other professors. Finally in 1947 he became a full time professor at Berkeley, but shortly after that the government asked him to help them work on some important projects. .
             He started his work with the government during the World War II era. He worked on some experiments that would change the world would look at war from then on. He started on the Manhattan project, which later developed the atomic bomb that ended the war. He returned to Berkeley in 1946 where he became the director of the bioorganic chemistry group.


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1. Photosynthesis

There is a series of reactions, or pathway, called the Calvin-Benson cycle. ... Another pathway, called photorespiration, is not photosynthetic, but closely related to the Calvin-Benson cycle. The C-B cycle occurs in all green plants as the sole photosynthetic system, or in conjunction with Hatch-Slack pathway, or CAM pathway.The Calvin-Benson cycle, also the C-3 pathway is a reaction involving a three-carbon sugar, named phosphoglyceraldehyde. This pathway was discovered by Melvin Calvin in the University of California, around the end of World War II, the same period that Carbon-14 was discov...

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