biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–97)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. He studied at the universities of Minnesota and Manchester (UK), then became professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (1947–71) and head of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory there (1963–80). He was best known for his research into the role of chlorophyll in photosynthesis, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1961. |
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