| Melvin Calvin  Born: 8-Apr-1911
Birthplace: St. Paul, MN
Died: 8-Jan-1997
Location of death: Berkeley, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Deciphered photosynthesis Wife: Genevieve Jemtegaard (m. 1942, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Elin
Daughter: Karole
Son: Noel
University: BS, Michigan College of Mining and Technology (1931)
University: PhD, University of Minnesota (1935)
Scholar: University of Manchester (1935-37, Rockefeller fellowship)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1937-)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1961
Davy Medal 1964
Priestley Medal 1978
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Russian Ancestry
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