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Born	April 8, 1911 • St. Paul • Minnesota
Died	January 8, 1997 (aged 85) • Berkeley • California
Awards And Honors	National Medal of Science (1989) • Nobel Prize (1961)
Subjects Of Study	Chlorella • origin of life • photosynthesis • radiation chemistry

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Diagram of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle in photosynthesis, showing carbon dioxide fixation and reduction steps. Arrows trace the transformation of CO2 and RuBP through intermediates like PGA, DPGA, and Gal3P, with ATP and NADPH inputs and the net production of one Gal3P molecule for sugar or starch synthesis.

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