Stories by Eugene I. Rabinowitch

The pigments of plants trap light energy and store it as chemical energy. They do this by catalyzing an oxidation-reduction process in which hydrogen atoms are boosted from water to organic matter

In which the author describes some developments since his article of 1948, which summarized our knowledge of how plants can harness sunlight to make the stuff of life out of carbon dioxide and water

Life's essential process, performed by stately trees and microscopic algae, is imperfectly understood. But the problem is slowly yielding to a concerted attack