Meta Musings on the Origins of Life (on the ASTROBIOLOGY MAGAZINE)
In 1953, the chemist Stanley Miller cracked open one of the deepest mysteries of science. Working under his mentor Harold Urey, Miller electrified a mixture of water vapor and gases thought to make up early Earth’s atmosphere, and soon obtained a brownish soup of amino acids—the building blocks of proteins and the key ingredients of life. And so was born the field of prebiotic chemistry and with it the modern quest for life’s origin. – See more at: http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/meta-musings-origins-life/#sthash.pUd4eQhW.dpuf