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Miller–Urey experiment

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The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. [1]

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Abiogenesis

Abiogenesis, or informally the origin of life,Compare: Also occasionally called biopoiesis.

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Alexander Oparin

Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Опа́рин) (– April 21, 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life.

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Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds containing amine (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid.

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Bernd Michael Rode

Bernd Michael Rode (born July 14, 1946 in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian Professor of Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and founder of the Austrian-South-East-Asian Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET).

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Carbonyl sulfide

Carbonyl sulfide is the chemical compound with the linear formula OCS.

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Cell (biology)

The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter.

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Cyanoacetylene

Cyanoacetylene is an organic compound with formula or H-C≡C-C≡N.

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Cyanopolyyne

Cyanopolyynes are a group of chemicals with the chemical formula (n.

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Deaths in May 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2007.

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Edward Trifonov

Edward Nikolayevich Trifonov (אדוארד טריפונוב, Эдуapд Тpифoнoв; b. March 31, 1937) is a Russian-born Israeli molecular biophysicist and a founder of Israeli bioinformatics.

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Erathem

In stratigraphy, paleontology, geology, and geobiology an erathem is the total stratigraphic unit deposited during a certain corresponding span of time during an era in the geologic timescale.

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Formamide-based prebiotic chemistry

Formamide-based prebiotic chemistry refers to ongoing scientific efforts aimed at reconstructing the beginnings of life on our planet assuming that formamide could accumulate in sufficiently high amounts to serve as the building block and reaction medium for the synthesis of the first biogenic molecules.

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Frederick Twort

Frederick William Twort FRS (22 October 1877 – 20 March 1950) was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).

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Geobiology

Geobiology is a field of scientific research that explores the interactions between the physical Earth and the biosphere.

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Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a book by best-selling author and conservative columnist Ann Coulter, published in 2006.

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Graham Cairns-Smith

Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith FRSE (24 November 1931 – 26 August 2016) was an organic chemist and molecular biologist at the University of Glasgow.

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Harold Urey

Harold Clayton Urey (April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium.

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History of chemistry

The history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present.

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History of Earth

The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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History of the University of Chicago

Two years after the closure of the original University of Chicago campus in Bronzeville (1857-1886), supporters succeeded in raising money for a new location.

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Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry

Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry is the scientific study of biological, geological, and chemical processes in the environment using the distribution and relative abundance of hydrogen isotopes.

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Index of biology articles

Biology is the study of life and its processes.

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Index of evolutionary biology articles

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

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Isoserine

Isoserine is a non-proteinogenic α-hydroxy-β-amino acid, and an isomer of serine.

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J. B. S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964) was an English scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.

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Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848), named by himself and contemporary society as Jacob Berzelius, was a Swedish chemist.

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Jeffrey L. Bada

Jeffrey L. Bada (born September 10, 1942) is an American chemist well known for his works in the study of the origin of life.

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Joan Oró

s Joan Oró i Florensa (October 26, 1923 in Lleida, Spain – September 2, 2004 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Spanish biochemist, whose research has been of importance in understanding the origin of life.

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Life

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that do have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate.

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Life on Titan

Whether there is life on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is at present an open question and a topic of scientific assessment and research.

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List of atheists in science and technology

This is a list of atheists in science and technology.

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List of chemists

This is a list of chemists.

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List of Earlham College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, located in the American city of Richmond, Indiana.

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List of experiments

The following is a list of historically important scientific experiments and observations demonstrating something of great scientific interest, typically in an elegant or clever manner.

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Microparticle

Microparticles are particles between 0.1 and 100 \mum in size.

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Murchison meteorite

The Murchison meteorite is a large meteorite that fell to earth near Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, in 1969.

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Murchison, Victoria

Murchison is a small riverside rural village located on the Goulburn River in Victoria, Australia.

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Non-proteinogenic amino acids

In biochemistry, non-coded or non-proteinogenic amino acids are those not naturally encoded or found in the genetic code of any organism.

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Norleucine

Norleucine (abbreviated as Nle) is an amino acid with the formula CH3(CH2)3CH(NH2)CO2H.

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Norvaline

Norvaline (abbreviated as Nva) is an amino acid with the formula CH3(CH2)2CH(NH2)CO2H.

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Origin (Brown novel)

Origin is a 2017 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown.

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Outline of biology

Biology – The natural science that involves the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.

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PAH world hypothesis

The PAH world hypothesis is a speculative hypothesis that proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), known to be abundant in the universe, including in comets, and, as well, assumed to be abundant in the primordial soup of the early Earth, played a major role in the origin of life by mediating the synthesis of RNA molecules, leading into the RNA world.

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Planetary habitability

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to have habitable environments hospitable to life, or its ability to generate life endogenously.

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Primordial soup

Primordial soup, or prebiotic soup, is a hypothetical condition of the Earth's atmosphere before the emergence of life.

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RNA world

The RNA world is a hypothetical stage in the evolutionary history of life on Earth, in which self-replicating RNA molecules proliferated before the evolution of DNA and proteins.

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Roman Zubarev

Roman A. Zubarev is a professor of medicinal proteomics in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Karolinska Institutet.

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Sea

A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.

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Sidney W. Fox

Sidney Walter Fox (24 March 1912 – 10 August 1998) was a Los Angeles-born biochemist responsible for discoveries on the origins of life.

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Stanley Miller

Stanley Lloyd Miller (March 7, 1930 – May 20, 2007) was an American chemist who made landmark experiments in the origin of life by demonstrating that a wide range of vital organic compounds can be synthesized by fairly simple chemical processes from inorganic substances.

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Tholin

Tholins (after the Greek θολός (tholós) "hazy" or "muddy"; from the ancient Greek word meaning "sepia ink") are a wide variety of organic compounds formed by solar ultraviolet irradiation or cosmic rays from simple carbon-containing compounds such as carbon dioxide, methane or ethane, often in combination with nitrogen.

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Timeline of scientific experiments

The timeline below shows the date of publication of major scientific experiments.

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Titan (moon)

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn.

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United States in the 1950s

The United States in the 1950s experienced marked economic growth – with an increase in manufacturing and home construction amongst a post–World War II economic expansion.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Viking lander biological experiments

The two Viking landers each carried four types of biological experiments to the surface of Mars in 1976.

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13 Things That Don't Make Sense

13 Things That Don't Make Sense is a non-fiction book by the British writer Michael Brooks, published in both the UK and the US during 2008.

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1953 in science

The year 1953 involved numerous significant events in science and technology, including the first description of the DNA double helix, the discovery of neutrinos, and the release of the first polio vaccine.

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20th century in science

Science advanced dramatically during the 20th century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller–Urey_experiment

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