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QUANTUM CONVERSION IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Description: A new suggestion is made based on model work associated with similar measurements on the biological material itself. The primary quantum conversion act is an ionization occurring in a charge transfer complex. This is what it amounts to in chemical terms. But this process cannot occur in isolated charge transfer molecules in solution because the products cannot escape from each other. The primary quantum conversion as it occurs in modern photosynthesis can only take place in a laminated structur… more
Date: January 1, 1961
Creator: Calvin, Melvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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THE PATH OF CARBON IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Description: It is almost sixty years since Emil Fischer was describing on a platform such as this one some of the work which led to the basic knowledge of the structure of glucose and its relatives. Today we will be concerned with a description of the experiments which have led to a knowledge of the principal reactions by which those carbohydrate structures are created by photosynthetic organisms from carbon dioxide and water, using the energy of light. The speculations on the way in which carbohydrate was… more
Date: December 11, 1961
Creator: Calvin, Melvin (Nobel Prize lecture)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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