Andrew A. Benson: personal recollections.
Andrew A. Benson, one of the greatest and much loved scientists of our century, passed away on January 16, 2015; he was born on September 24, 1917. A grand celebration of his life was held on February 6, 2015, in California. Here, we present one of his photographs and key excerpts from what was said then, and soon thereafter.
Brandt iHammer, 479 Village Park Drive, Powell, OH, 43065, USA. art.n@brandtihammer.co.
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. glorimer@umd.edu.
George
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Lorimer
Holtz Biopharma Consulting, Austin, TX, 77807, USA. bholtz@caliberbio.com.
Barry
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Holtz
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. vvacquier@ucsd.edu.
Victor
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Vacquier
Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia. karlbiel@hotmail.com.|Biosphere Systems International Foundation, Tucson, AZ, 85755, USA. karlbiel@hotmail.com.
Karl Y
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Biel
Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. gov@illinois.edu.
Govindjee
D001901:Botany / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century
Benson’s protocol; Path of carbon; Photosynthesis; Radioisotope