Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS (12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a British chemist. He is known for his theories on the origin of life. Leslie Orgel was...
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Orgel's rules are a set of axioms attributed by Francis Crick to the evolutionary biologist Leslie Orgel. "Whenever a spontaneous process is too slow or...
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like Tanabe–Sugano diagrams. They are named after their creator, Leslie Orgel. Orgel diagrams are restricted to only show weak field (i.e. high spin)...
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Orgel or orgel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orgel is a surname, and may refer to: Doris Orgel (born 1929), children's literature author Leslie...
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Specified complexity (section Orgel's terminology)
"specified complexity" was originally coined by origin of life researcher Leslie Orgel in his 1973 book The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection...
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Dawkins, two papers were published back-to-back in Nature in 1980 – by Leslie Orgel and Francis Crick and by Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza – introducing...
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origins of the genetic code. In 1966, Crick took the place of Leslie Orgel at a meeting where Orgel was to talk about the origin of life. Crick speculated about...
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by the British press. Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to...
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give rise to RNA molecules which replicate, mutate, and evolve. 1974 – Leslie Orgel showed that RNA can replicate without RNA-replicase and that zinc aids...
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dispute. LUCA systems and environment included the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway. Leslie Orgel argued that early translation machinery for the genetic code would be...
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d orbitals in transition metal complexes. John Stanley Griffith and Leslie Orgel championed ligand field theory as a more accurate description of such...
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analogs. There was an earlier use of the term introduced in 1963 by Leslie Orgel in a theory for cellular aging, in which errors in the translation of...
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extinctions, or were lost in other ways. Biochemists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel laid special emphasis on this uncertainty: "At the moment we have no...
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Sidney W. Fox Walter Gordy Edgar Heilbronner Jan Ketelaar Hans Kuhn Leslie Orgel Alexander Rich Seymour Jonathan Singer Signature Notes The only person...
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a New Approach to Sol Spiegelman's and Leslie Orgel's in vitro Evolutionary Studies Dedicated to Leslie Orgel on the occasion of his 70th birthday". Origins...
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decreases by 2%. Orgel's rules, in evolutionary biology, are a set of axioms attributed to the evolutionary biologist Leslie Orgel: First rule: "Whenever...
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(deceased), Nobel laureate (for DNA double helix structure description). Leslie Orgel (deceased), former Senior Fellow and Research Professor Marguerite Vogt...
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as a primordial molecule can be found in papers by Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel, as well as in Carl Woese's 1967 book The Genetic Code. Hans Kuhn in...
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Nearer Secret of Life". Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton were some of the first people in April 1953 to...
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known biological catalysts. In 1967, Carl Woese, Francis Crick, and Leslie Orgel were the first to suggest that RNA could act as a catalyst. This idea...
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Richard Borshay Lee, György Marx, William H. McNeill, Bernard M. Oliver, Leslie Orgel, John R. Platt, Gunther Stent, Charles Hard Townes. As a result of the...
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First proposed in 1972 by Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, along with Leslie Orgel, directed panspermia is the theory that life was deliberately brought...
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method of DNA analysis Walter Munk – oceanographer, lived in La Jolla Leslie Orgel – research chemist, lived in La Jolla 1964–2007 Erving Polster – psychologist...
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Wickramasinghe, and by molecular biologist Francis Crick and chemist Leslie Orgel. There are three main versions of the "seeded from elsewhere" hypothesis:...
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supporter. In April 1953, together with Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, Hodgkin was one of the first people to travel...
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Institute in California. Together with Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, he was one of the first people in April 1953 to...
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(born 1924) 25 October – Richard Rougier, judge (born 1932) 27 October – Leslie Orgel, chemist (born 1927) 28 October – Graham Chadwick, bishop and anti-apartheid...
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had arranged for him to work with Leslie Orgel, who would turn his scientific career onto a different pathway. Orgel introduced him to Francis Crick and...
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Institute in 1985, Joyce worked under prominent RNA world researcher Leslie Orgel. He was a professor at The Scripps Research Institute until 2017 and...
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who won the Royal Medal; Leslie Reginald Cox, a palaeontologist, and the chemist Leslie Orgel, who is known for inventing Orgel's rules. The Marxist journalist...
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