What is Melvin Calvin?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Melvin Calvin |image = Melvin Calvin.jpg |image_size = 180px |caption = |birth_name=Melvin Ellis Calvin |birth_date = April 8, 1911 |birth_place = [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], U.S. |nationality = [[United States]] |death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1997|1|8|1911|4|8}}}} |death_place = [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California]], U.S. |field = [[Chemistry]]{{·}}[[Biology]] |work_institution = {{nowrap|[[University of Manchester]]<br/>[[University of California, Berkeley]]<br/>[[Berkeley Radiation Laboratory]]<br/>[[Science Advisory Committee]]}} |alma_mater = [[Michigan Technological University|Michigan College of Mining and Technology]]<br/>[[University of Minnesota]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |academic_advisors = [[Michael Polanyi]] |known_for = [[Calvin cycle]] |prizes = {{nowrap|[[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] <small>(1961)</small><br/>[[Davy Medal]] <small>(1964)</small><br/>[[Priestley Medal]] <small>(1978)</small><br/>[[American Institute of Chemists|AIC Gold Medal]] <small>(1979)</small><br/>[[National Medal of Science]] <small>(1989)</small><ref>[http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=68 National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science]</ref>}} |spouse=Genevieve Elle Jemtegaard (m. 1942; 3 children) (d.1987) }} '''Melvin Ellis Calvin''' (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997)<ref>Seaborg G.T; Benson A.A. 2008. Melvin Calvin. 8 April 1911 -- 8 January 1997. ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society'' '''54''': 59. [http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/54/59]</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] [[chemist]]. He discovered the [[Calvin cycle]] (with Andrew Benson and James Bassham). He was awarded the 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for this work. Calvin spent most of his five-decade career at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Using the [[carbon-14]] isotope as a tracer, Calvin and colleagues mapped the complete route that carbon travels through a plant during [[photosynthesis]]. It start