1911 - 1997
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1912 – January 8, 1997) was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melvin Calvin has received more than 298,370 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Melvin Calvin is the 58th most popular chemist (up from 74th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from United States (up from 630th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Chemist.
Melvin Calvin is most famous for his research in the field of organic chemistry. He is most well known for his work with the Calvin cycle, which he discovered in the 1950s.
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Among chemists, Melvin Calvin ranks 58 out of 509. Before him are Paul Sabatier, Fritz Pregl, Adolf Butenandt, Hans Fischer, Kurt Alder, and Jacques Monod. After him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Kary Mullis, Friedrich Bergius, Irving Langmuir, Tadeusz Reichstein, and Adolf Windaus.
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 52
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 53
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 54
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 55
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 56
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 57
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 58
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 59
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 60
1884 - 1949
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 61
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 62
1897 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 63
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 64
Among people born in 1911, Melvin Calvin ranks 20. Before him are Marshall McLuhan, Czesław Miłosz, Jack Ruby, Robert Johnson, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Tennessee Williams. After him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, William Alfred Fowler, Wilhelm Mohnke, Joseph Barbera, Lê Đức Thọ, and Maurice Allais. Among people deceased in 1997, Melvin Calvin ranks 21. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal, The Notorious B.I.G., Hans Eysenck, Isaiah Berlin, William S. Burroughs, and Sviatoslav Richter. After him are Robert Mitchum, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Bảo Đại, Fred Zinnemann, and Aldo Rossi.
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 14
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 15
1911 - 1967
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 16
1911 - 1938
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 17
1911 - 1995
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 18
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 19
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 20
1911 - 2004
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 21
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1911 - 2001
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 23
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 24
1911 - 1990
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 25
1911 - 2010
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 26
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 15
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 16
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 17
1909 - 1997
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 19
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 20
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 21
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 22
1926 - 1997
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 23
1923 - 1997
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 24
1913 - 1997
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 25
1907 - 1997
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 26
1931 - 1997
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 27
Among people born in United States, Melvin Calvin ranks 504 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard Widmark (1914), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Harriet Tubman (1820), Paul Simon (1941), and Elinor Ostrom (1933). After him are Ruth Benedict (1887), Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), John Kerry (1943), Robert Mitchum (1917), and Leonard Nimoy (1931).
1914 - 2008
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 498
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 499
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 500
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 501
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 502
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 503
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 504
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 505
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 506
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 507
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 508
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 509
1931 - 2015
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 510
Among chemists born in United States, Melvin Calvin ranks 5. Before him are Linus Pauling (1901), Edwin McMillan (1907), John Stith Pemberton (1831), and Gertrude B. Elion (1918). After him are Kary Mullis (1944), Irving Langmuir (1881), John Howard Northrop (1891), Theodore William Richards (1868), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), and Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893).
1901 - 1994
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 1
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 2
1831 - 1888
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 3
1918 - 1999
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 4
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 5
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 6
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 7
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 8
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 9
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 10
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 11
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 12