Leslie Orgel Papers, 1960 - 1991

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extra...

Selezne, S. A.

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Labouygues, Jean-Michel

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Orgel, Leslie E.

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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 Socie...

Arrhenius, Gustaf

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Holliday, R. (Robin), 1932-

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Crick, Francis, 1916-

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Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

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Biochemistry professor at Stanford University since 1959, focusing on enzymatic studies of DNA replication. Kornberg was Chief of Enzymes and Metabolics at the National Institute of Health from 1947 to 1953, Chief of the Department of Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine from 1953 to 1959 and Chairman of Stanford's Department of Biochemistry from 1959 to 1969. In 1959, Kornberg received a Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for pioneering the synthesis of DNA in the la...

Miller, Stanley Lloyd, 1930-2007

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Stanley Miller, a prominent biologist and chemist, was best known for his studies into the origins of life. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951 and his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1954. It was there, as a graduate student studying under Harold Urey, that Miller gained attention for his research into the origins of life. His publications resulted in attracting attention from both the scientific community and the popular pre...

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

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George Gamow: physicist, astronomer, and author. Born Georgii Antonovič Gamov. Barbara Merrihew Perkins: editor and translator. From the description of George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981157 Russian-born American physicist, early advocate of the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe. Professor of Physics at George Washington University, 1934-1956. While a student at the Institute of Theoretical Ph...

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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