Melvin Calvin Quotes

Melvin Calvin — American Scientist born on April 08, 1911, died on January 08, 1997

Melvin Ellis Calvin 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... (wikipedia)

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Melvin Calvin Quotes

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