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ArticlePhotosynthesis research2023

Paul A. Castelfranco (1921-2021): a scientist par excellence, a man of lasting faith, and ever a humanist.

R W Breidenbach, Ann M Castelfranco, John Castelfranco, Govindjee Govindjee, Kevin M Smith, Alan Stemler

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Article in Photosynthesis research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

R W BreidenbachDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Ann M CastelfrancoPacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA. castelfr@hawaii.edu.
John Castelfranco, 511 7th Street, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Govindjee GovindjeeDepartment of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. gov@illinois.edu.
Kevin M SmithDepartment of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
Alan StemlerDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present here the life and the work of Paul A. Castelfranco (1921-2021), a very special person who was not only a top chemist of chlorophyll biosynthesis, but also made major contributions on fatty acid oxidation, acetate metabolism and cellular organization. He led an extraordinary and exemplary life as a human being. We present here both his personal life as well as his scientific life, which is followed by reminiscences by William Breidenbach, Kevin Smith, Alan Stemler, Ann Castelfranco, and John Castelfranco. As the subtitle of this Tribute implies, till the end Paul was a scientist par excellence, an intellectual with unlimited curiosity, a humanist, and a man of enduring religious faith. We all miss him dearly.

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Chlorophyll biosynthesisDonald NoyceGiorgio de ChiricoPaul StumpfPhotosynthesisδ-aminolevulinic acid

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PMID37140874

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