A tribute to Hugo P. Kortschak: The man, the scientist and the discoverer of C4photosynthesis

✍ Scribed by Louis G. Nickell

• Book ID: 104613689
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 463 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0166-8595
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00014751

✦ Synopsis

Hugo P. Kortschak, a shy, quiet Quaker with unbelievable generosity toward mankind; an accomplished musician; and a dedicated, tenacious, and brilliant scientist, who spent his entire professional career working for a single employer in a commercially-oriented research organization, made one of the outstanding contributions to biological science of the past century. With his colleagues in the Hawaiian sugar industry, he discovered the C 4 pathway of photosynthesis.