Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Volume II Book II ONLY. 27 cm. NASA special publication no. 374. Includes Illustrations. Index. DJ wear, soiling, tears, and chips. Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – 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. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was founder and Director of the Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics and simultaneously Associate Director of Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, where he conducted much of his research until retiring in 1980. Lieutenant General Oleg Georgievich Gazenko (December 12, 1918 – November 17, 2007) was a scientist, general in the Soviet Air Force and the former director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow. He was a leading scientist behind the Soviet animals in space programs, he selected and trained Laika, the dog who flew on the Sputnik 2 mission. More