Question

For what did Melvin Calvin win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) Chlorophyll research
b) Discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis
c) Synthesis of ammonia
d) Development of partition chromatography

Answer 1

Melvin Calvin wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry Chlorophyll research in 1961.

Bassham, Benson and Calvin worked on how the sunlight acts on the chlorophyll in a plant for the manufacturing of the fuel of organic compound rather the formation of carbon dioxide as presumed earlier.

This came to know as Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle.