title: Andrew A. Benson, 1917-2015.
abstract: On January 16, 2015, Professor Andrew Alm Benson, one of the leading plant biochemists of the twentieth century, died in La Jolla, California, at the age of 97; he was born on September 24, 1917. Benson was known especially for his pioneering studies on photosynthesis (CO2 assimilation, carbon reduction cycle) and plant lipids (phospholipid phosphatidyl glycerol; and the sulfolipid, sulfoquinovosyl diglyceride). A photograph of Benson is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1 Photograph of Andrew A. Benson.
  
  
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  Annual Review of Plant Biology, Vol. 53, 2002, published with permission.
authors.affiliation: Botanical Institute 2 (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Plants), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University Division, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany, hartmut.lichtenthaler@kit.edu.
authors.forename: Hartmut K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Lichtenthaler
authors.forename: Bob B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Douce
authors.lastname: Govindjee
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D001671:Biochemistry / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008055:Lipids / Q000266:history; D010788:Photosynthesis; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids
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