Mary Belle Allen
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Mary Belle Allen's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Botany University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Botany University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Mary Belle Allen Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Belle Allen was an American botanist, chemist, mycologist, algologist, and plant pathologist, and a pioneer of biochemical microbiology. With Daniel I. Arnon and F. Robert Whatley, she did breakthrough research discovering and demonstrating the role of chloroplasts in photosynthesis. In 1962 she received the Darbaker Prize from the Botanical Society of America for her work on microbial algae. In 1967 she was nominated jointly with Arnon and Whatley for a Nobel Prize.
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