Robert Emerson was an American botanist and biochemist who specialized in photosynthesis. He is best known for his discovery of the Emerson effect, a relation between light wavelengths and photosynthesis rates, and for identifying two distinct photosynthetic reaction centers in plants.
- Occupation
- chemist, biophysicist, botanist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 4, 1903
- Died
- February 4, 1959
