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by Tero » Thu Jun 07, 2018 4:20 pm
The guy does not even have a Wikipedia page. His work has been abstracted into popular books, two of them are on oxygen.
https://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/people/ ... lankenship
from his list of publications there you can follow the evolution of modern photosynthesis. It first appeared in cyanobacteria prior to the cambrian. photosystems I and II were derived from different bacterial origin.
Prior to that, no bacteria had two separate photosystems. Only when you have both can you break the H-O-H bonds that leads to spitting out molecular O2 as a waste product. Prior to this process becoming the major route our planet had no oxygen in the atmosphere.
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