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A discussion among scientists
The Origins of Life
Assuming the organic arose from the inorganic when the world was young, what are the possible and probable steps by which the synthesis took place?
Chairman:
J. D. Bernal, F.R.S. Professor of Physics.
Birkbeck College, London
Panel:
P. D. Mitchell, Ph.D., F.R.P.S .
Zoology Department,
University of Edinburgh
L. E. Orgel, Ph.D.
University Chemical Laboratory,
Cambridge
N. W. Pirie, F.R.S.
Head of Biochemistry Department,
Rothamsted Experimental Station and R. L. M. Synge, F.R.S.
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn. Aberdeenshire

Contributors

Unknown:
J. D. Bernal, F.R.S.
Unknown:
P. D. Mitchell, Ph.D., F.R.P.S
Unknown:
N. W. Pirie, F.R.S.
Unknown:
R. L. M. Synge, F.R.S.

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