Orgel, Leslie E.

British chemist educated at the University of Oxford and, since 1964, a member of the research faculty at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Orgel has conducted pioneering research in nucleotide chemistry and questions concerning the origin of life. He is the author of the The origins of life: molecules and natural selection (1970) and, with Stanley L. Miller, of The origins of life on the earth (1974). He has been awarded the Harrison Prize (1957) and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1962) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1980).

From the description of Papers, 1960-1991. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 37356813

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