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Andrew A. Benson, 1917-2015
Hartmut K Lichtenthaler1, Bob B Buchanan, Roland Douce
1Botanical Institute 2 (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Plants), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University Division, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany, hartmut.lichtenthaler@kit.edu.
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On January 16, 2015, Professor Andrew Alm Benson, one of the leading plant biochemists of the twentieth century, died in La Jolla, California, at the age of 97; he was born on September 24, 1917. Benson was known especially for his pioneering studies on photosynthesis (CO2 assimilation, carbon reduction cycle) and plant lipids (phospholipid phosphatidyl glycerol; and the sulfolipid, sulfoquinovosyl diglyceride). A photograph of Benson is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1 Photograph of Andrew A. Benson.
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Annual Review of Plant Biology, Vol. 53, 2002, published with permission.
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