title: Last days in the old radiation laboratory (ORL), Berkeley, California, 1954.
abstract: Govindjee, the founding editor of the Historical Corner of Photosynthesis Research, invited me 3 years ago to tell the story of why I left Melvin Calvin's laboratory in the mid 1950s long before the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Calvin for the path of carbon in photosynthesis. I have already written my scientific perspective on this topic (see Benson (Photosynth Res 73:29-49, 2002); also see Bassham (Photosynth Res 76:35-52, 2003) as he was also a major player in this research). Here, I present my recollections of my last days in the old radiation laboratory (ORL) at Berkeley, California. References have been added by Govindjee for the benefit of the readers.
authors.affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0202, USA. abenson@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Benson
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010788:Photosynthesis
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