Honoring Bacon Ke at 100: a Legend Among the Many Luminaries and a Highly Collaborative Scientist in Photosynthesis Research

Overview

Journal Photosynth Res

Publisher Springer

Date 2021 Feb 14

PMID 33582974

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Authors

Govindjee Govindjee

Yun-Kang Shen

Xin-Guang Zhu

Hualing Mi

Teruo Ogawa

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Abstract

Bacon Ke, who did pioneering research on the primary photochemistry of photosynthesis, was born in China on July 26, 1920, and currently, he is living in a senior home in San Francisco, California, and is a centenarian. To us, this is a very happy and unique occasion to honor him. After providing a brief account of his life, and a glimpse of his research in photosynthesis, we present here "messages" for Bacon Ke@ 100 from: Robert Alfano (USA), Charles Arntzen (USA), Sandor Demeter (Hungary), Richard A. Dilley (USA), John Golbeck (USA), Isamu Ikegami (Japan), Ting-Yun Kuang (China), Richard Malkin (USA), Hualing Mi (China), Teruo Ogawa (Japan), Yasusi Yamamoto (Japan), and Xin-Guang Zhu (China).

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