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==Awards and honors== Kamen was elected a Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] in 1941.<ref>{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1941&unit_id=&institution=University+of+California}} (search on year 1941 and institution University of California)</ref> He became a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2019-10/ChapterK.pdf|title=Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=December 26, 2019}}</ref> In 1962, Kamen was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53996.html|title=Martin D. Kamen|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|access-date=December 26, 2019}}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Martin+D.+Kamen&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> Kamen became a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] recipient in 1956 and again in 1972, in the field of Molecular and Cellular Biology.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/martin-d-kamen/|title=Martin D. Kamen|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|access-date=December 26, 2019}}</ref> Kamen was awarded the Charles F. Kettering Award for Excellence in Photosynthesis Research from the [[American Society of Plant Biologists]] in 1968<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles F. Kettering Award |url=https://aspb.org/awards-funding/aspb-awards/charles-f-kettering-award/#tab-id-3 |website=American Society of Plant Biologists |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref> and the Merck Award of the [[American Society of Biological Chemists]] in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |title=ASBMB–Merck Award |url=https://www.asbmb.org/career-resources/awards-grants-fellowships/merck |website=American Society of Biological Chemists |access-date=15 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> He received the 1989 [[Albert Einstein World Award of Science]].<ref name="Einstein">{{cite web|title=Albert Einstein World Award of Science 1989|url=https://www.consejoculturalmundial.org/winners/winners-of-the-world-award-of-science/dr-martin-kamen/|date=November 8, 1989|access-date=December 26, 2019}}</ref> On April 24, 1996, he was presented with the 1995 [[Enrico Fermi Award]], given by the U.S. President and the Department of Energy for lifetime scientific achievement.<ref name="Chang"/><ref name="FERMI">{{cite web |title=FERMI Martin D. Kamen, 1995 {{!}} U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC) |url=https://science.osti.gov/fermi/Award-Laureates/1990s/kamen |website=US Department of Energy |access-date=15 August 2022 |date=28 December 2010}}</ref> Some believe he should have won a Nobel Prize,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Govindjee |last2=Blankenship |first2=Robert E. |title=Martin D. Kamen, Whose Discovery of 14 C Changed Plant Biology as Well as Archaeology |journal=Plantae |date=2018 |url=https://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/recent_papers_files/Govindjee_and_Blankenship-2018.pdf}}</ref> for which he was nominated 14 times between 1955 and 1970.<ref name="Nobel">{{cite web |title=Nomination archive |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=10671 |website=The Nobel Prize |access-date=16 August 2022 |date=1 April 2020}}</ref>
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