If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Calvin was the sole recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for what is sometimes known as the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle. D. In 1963 he was given the additional title of Professor of Molecular Biology.

He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California Berkeley. Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8 1911 – January 8 1997) was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.