Recipients of the Robert Emerson Award and Govindjee & Rajni Govindjee Awards, 2012
May 2012
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 Fig.1. Left to right: Rajni Govindjee; Courtney Leisner (2012 Govindjee (G) &Rajni Govindjee (RG) Awardee; wearing Robert Emerson’s glasses that he wore when he did glass blowing); Sharon Gray (2012 G&RG Awardee); and Govindjee (wearing Emerson’s apron). The poster in the photo is the 1965 Z-Scheme designed by Govindjee and made by Natalie Davis. |
 Fig.2. Left to right: Govindjee (wearing Robert Emerson’s apron); Robert Mitchell (2012 Robert Emerson Awardee; holding the “ metal housing” that had the second light source that Emerson used in 1957 in his discovery of the Enhancement Effect that led to the concept of two light reactions and two pigment systems in photosynthesis); and Rajni Govindjee (holding Emerson’s hand spectroscope). Also shown in the picture is a cartoon of the discoverers of photosynthesis from the 1969 book “Photosynthesis” by Rabinowitch and Govindjee. |
 Fig.3. Left to right: Sharon Gray (2012 G&RG Awardee; wearing Robert Emerson’s glasses that he wore when he did glass blowing); Courtney Leisner (2012 G&RG Awardee; holding Emerson’s hand spectroscope); and Govindjee (wearing Emerson’s lab apron). In the background is the plaque honoring Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch. |
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 Fig. 4. Left to right: Robert Mitchell (2012 Robert Emerson Awardee; holding Emerson’s hand spectroscope); and Govindjee (wearing Emerson’s lab apron). In the background is the plaque honoring Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch. |
 Fig.5. Left to right: Robert Mitchell (2012 Robert Emerson Awardee); Govindjee; Sharon Gray (2012 G&RG Awardee); Courtney Leisner (2012 G&RG Awardee); and Rajni Govindjee, in front of Room #155 of Natural History Building, where Emerson and Rabinowitch led the famous “Photosynthesis Project” during the 1940s and 1950s. |
 Fig.6. Left to right: Govindjee; Sharon Gray (2012 G&RG Awardee); Courtney Leisner (2012 G&RG Awardee); and Robert Mitchell (2012 Robert Emerson Awardee), in front of the Room #157 of Natural History Building; the door in the background is through which Robert Emerson entered his laboratory to do his experiments on the maximum quantum yield of photosynthesis and the Enhancement Effect in photosynthesis that later led to the concept of two light reactions and two pigment systems. |
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All photos by Joan Huber, on May 8, 2012