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| Born | 22 April 1900  Michigan City |
| Died | 4 March 1989 (aged 88) |
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| Spouse(s) | Anne Catherine Hof Blinks |
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Lawrence Rogers Blinks (22 April 1900- 4 March 1989) [1] was an American biologist with research interests in photosynthesis and electrophysiology. He served as the editor of the Annual Review of Plant Physiology (now the Annual Review of Plant Biology ) for 1956. [2]
Lawrence Rogers Blinks was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on 22 April 1900 to parents Walter Moulton Blinks and Ella Little (Rogers) Blinks. [1] He attended Kalamazoo College and Stanford University, before attending Harvard University where he was awarded a BS in 1923 and MA in 1925. He also completed his PhD at Harvard in 1926 under the direction of Winthrop Osterhout. [1] Blinks married botanist Anne Catherine Hof in 1928 and they had one son. [1] [3] At age 88, Lawrence Blinks died on March 22, 1989, in Pacific Grove, California. [1]
After graduation, Blinks continued to work with Osterhout at the Bermuda Biological Station and Rockefeller Institute. [1] In 1933, he joined the faculty of Stanford University and worked on the main campus before serving the director of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove from 1943 to 1965. [1] After retiring from Stanford, he worked as a visiting professor at UC Santa Cruz from 1966 to 1973 and helped to develop the new UC campus's Department of Biological Sciences. [4]
Martin David Kamen was an American chemist who, together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. He also confirmed that all of the oxygen released in photosynthesis comes from water, not carbon dioxide, in 1941.
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Andrew Alm Benson was an American biologist and a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, until his retirement in 1989. He is known for his work in understanding the carbon cycle in plants.
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Anne Catherine Hof Blinks (1903-1995) was an American botanist and textiles scholar.
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