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Melvin Calvin and photosynthesis apparatus

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Melvin Calvin and photosynthesis apparatus

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Melvin Calvin in old radiation lab shown with some of the apparatus he used to study the role of carbon in photosynthesis.One of the new areas, cultivated both in Donner and the Old Radiation Laboratory, was the study of organic compounds labeled with carbon-14. Melvin Calvin took charge of this work at the end of the war in order to provide raw materials for John Lawrence's researches and for his own study of photosynthesis. Using carbon-14, available in plenty from Hanford reactors, and the new techniques of ion exchange, paper chromatography, and radioautography, Calvin and his many associates mapped the complete path of carbon in photosynthesis. The accomplishment brought him the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1961. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.)

Citation Caption

LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol.6, No.3, Fall 1981, p. 50 | Melvin Calvin shown with some of the apparatus he used to study the role of carbon in photosynthesis.

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Melvin Calvin

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