Andrew Alm Benson (September 24, 1917 – January 16, 2015) 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.[1][2]
In work done from 1946 through 1953, along with Melvin Calvin and James Bassham, Benson elucidated the path of carbon assimilation (the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle) in plants. The carbon reduction cycle is known as the Calvin cycle, which inappropriately ignores the contribution of Bassham and Benson.[6] Many scientists refer to the cycle as the Calvin–Benson Cycle, Benson–Calvin, and some call it the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (or CBB) Cycle.[4]
^ abAdrianov, A. V.; Vaskovsky, V. E.; Pudovkin, A. I.; Terekhova, T. A.; Titlyanov, E. A.; Titlyanova, T. V. (2007), "On the 90th anniversary of Andrew Alm Benson great scientist and excellent man", Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 33 (5): 343–346, Bibcode:2007RuJMB..33..343A, doi:10.1134/S1063074007050136, S2CID41608682.
^Han, Kathy; Labos, Christopher (2004), "Historical Footprints: MJM Past and Present", McGill Journal of Medicine, 7 (2), archived from the original on 2008-05-17: "It would be unfair of us to talk of the Calvin cycle and credit its discovery to Melvin Calvin without at least giving a passing nod to Andrew Benson who did a considerable portion of the work while on Calvin's team."
^"95 Named to Academy of Sciences in Recognition of Achievements", The New York Times, April 29, 1973.