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Biochemist and plant physiologist

Andrew Alm Benson, American biochemistry educator. Recipient Sugar Research Foundation award, 1950, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial award, 1962, Research award Supelco/American Oil Chemists Society, 1987; Senior Queen's fellow Australia, 1979; Eminent Scientist of Rikagaku Kenkyūsho, Japan, 1995; named Honorary Citizen Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, 1988.

Background

Benson, Andrew Alm was born on September 24, 1917 in Modesto, California, United States. Son of Carl Bennett and Emma Carolina (Alm) Benson.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University California, Berkeley, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1942. Phil D honorary, University Oslo., 1965.

Docteur honorary, University Paris, 1986.

Career

Instructor chemistry department University California, Berkeley, 1942-1943, assistant director Bio-organic group Radiation Laboratory, 1946-1954. Research associate department chemistry Stanford University, 1944-1945, California Institute of Technology, 1945-1946. Associate professor agricultural biological chemistry Pennsylvania State University, 1955-1960, professor, 1960-1961.

Professor-in-residence biophysics/physiological chemistry University of California at Los Angeles, 1961-1962. Professor Scripps Institution Oceanography, University California, San Diego, 1962-1988, professor emeritus, since 1988. Fulbright visiting professor Agricultural College Norway, 1951-1952.

Works

  • Other Work

    • Contributor articles on biochemistry research on photosynthesis, lipids, coral metabolism, arsenic metabolism, methanol application in agriculture to professional journals.

Membership

Trustee Foundation for Ocean Research, San Diego, 1970-1988. Member advisory council The Costeau Society, since 1976. Member international advisory board Marine Biotechnology Institute Company Ltd., Tokyo, 1990-1998.

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Academy Arts and Science, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Norwegian Science Society and Letters, American Oil Chemists Society, American Chemical Society (emeritus), American Society Plant Physiologists (Stephen Hales prize 1972), American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences Russia (honorary).

Connections

Married Ruth Carkeek, May 22, 1942 (divorced 1969). Children: Claudia Benson Matthews, Linnea. Married Dorothy Dorgan Neri, July 31, 1971.

Father:
Carl Bennett Benson

Mother:
Emma Carolina (Alm) Benson

Spouse:
Ruth Carkeek

Spouse:
Dorothy Dorgan Neri

child:
Claudia Benson Matthews Benson

child:
Linnea Benson