Biochemistry
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Biochemistry
Rudolph Marcus
Once he graduated his scientific work skyrocketed and would become very famous. He went on to work with Oscar K. RIce and wrote the 1952 RRKM papers. In 1964 he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana- Champaign. He received many awards in his time that included the columbia universities Chandler Medal (1983), the Professorial fellowship at university college, Oxford (1975 to 1976), and the National Medal of Science (1989). His most famous prize though was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992.
He was considered and important scientists in the field of biochemistry because because of his research with electron-transfer reaction. He established what is known as the Marcus theory which explains the rate at which an electron can move or jump from one chemical species to the other.
Sources: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1992/marcus-bio.html
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolph-A-MarcusMelvin Calvin
Calvin received a degree in chemistry at Michigan College of Science And Technology. He got his Ph.D at the university of Minnesota where he worked with George Glocker on the electron affinity of halogens. He did a postdoctoral fellowship with michael Polány at the university of manchester. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his work in the ¨Calvin Cycle¨ which explains intermediary reactions in photosynthesis.
Calvin was important to biochemistry because he provided a big insight to the photosynthesis process and helped us to better understand how plants work. His work is also very much still used to this day.
Hans Krebs
Krebs studied metabolism and how it breaks down food and converts it into energy. He discovered the Krebs cycle which explains TricarBoxylic acid cycle. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine for this discovery. In 1958 he won the gold medal of the Netherlands Society for Physics.
He was important to biochemistry for his research in the metabolism area. He came up with Krebs cycle which helped explain the critic acid cycle and how it works. He continued to work on the cycle once he discovered it to help prove it to be true and many scientists looked up to his work and it was very important to them.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1953/krebs-bio.html
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/sir-hans-adolf-krebs