Melvin Calvin:
Melvin Calvin was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
April 8, 1911 in St. Paul, Minnesota
Death:
January 8, 1997 in Berkeley, California
Claim to Fame:
Calvin was an American chemist who was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry his discovery of the Calvin cycle. The Calvin cycle is a series of reactions that describe carbon fixing in plants. It is a light-independent reaction and sometimes referred to as a dark reaction.
