Following the Trail of Light

A Scientific Odyssey

• Author(s): Melvin Calvin,
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Pages: 175
• ISBN_10: 0841218285
  ISBN_13: 9780841218284
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology , Science / Chemistry / Organic , Science / History ,

Description:... Melvin Calvin is the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize for his work on the path of carbon photosynthesis. In this volume he discusses his work as a pioneer scientist in the application of chemistry as part of multidisciplinary research programmes, incorporating disciplines from psychology to botany, from photochemistry to chemical evolution and artificial photosynthesis.