What technique later proved Cornelius van Niel's inference about the source of O₂?

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A milestone contribution to the understanding of photosynthesis was that made by a microbiologist, Cornelius van Niel (1897-1985), who, based on his studies of purple and green bacteria, demonstrated that photosynthesis is essentially a light-dependent reaction in which hydrogen from a suitable oxidisable compound reduces carbon dioxide to carbohydrates. In green plants H2O is the hydrogen donor and is oxidised to O2 . Some organisms do not release O2 during photosynthesis. When H2 S, instead is the hydrogen donor