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Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 - January 8, 1997) was an American chemist most famed 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.Calvin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Russian immigrants. His father was Lithuanian and his mother Georgian. As a small child, Calvin's family moved to Detroit; he graduated from Central High School in 1928[1]. Melvin Calvin earned his Bachelor of Science from the Michigan…mehr

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Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 - January 8, 1997) was an American chemist most famed 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.Calvin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Russian immigrants. His father was Lithuanian and his mother Georgian. As a small child, Calvin's family moved to Detroit; he graduated from Central High School in 1928[1]. Melvin Calvin earned his Bachelor of Science from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now known as Michigan Technological University) in 1931 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He then spent the next four years doing postdoctoral work at the University of Manchester. He married Genevieve Jemtegaard in 1942, and they had three children, two daughters and a son.