Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Origins of Life

Chemistry and Radioastronomy

Buch | Softcover

XVII, 291 Seiten

2014 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-87746-9 (ISBN)

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This is an edited record of the dialogue of eminent scientists attending the fourth conference in the series of the origins of life, supported by a grant from the Biosciences Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Admini stration. The first conference at Princeton, 1967, was held under the direc tion of Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith at the time when the Interdisciplinary Co m munications Program (lCP) was associated with the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1968, ICP was integrated into the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science of the Smithsonian Institution, and the entire operation was set up in Washington, D. C. The second conference, also in Princeton, was held in 1968 and the third was in Santa Ynez, California in 1970. (See Margulis, ed. 1970, 1971 and 1972 for previously published proceedings.) The fourth conference was held at the Belmont Conference Center in Elkridge, Maryland, April 13-16, 1971. The proceedings are recorded and edited by the Interdisciplinary Com munications Associates, Inc. (lCA, a nonprofit foundation), for ICP. Dr. Lynn Margulis, who served as Scientific Editor for the entire series, has succeeded admirably in carrying out a difficult and usually inadequately appreciated task. She was ably assisted in her offices by Barbara Miranda and Harriet Eklund, the ICP Staff Editor for this series. I am grateful to all.

of Participants.- Identification of Prebiotic Compounds and the Contamination Problem.- Identification of Organic Matter in Natural Samples.- Energy Sources and the Probability that Life Could have Originated.- Legitimacy of Paleobiochemistry.- New Concepts of the Geochemical Cycle.- Temperature History of the Earth.- Form of Phosphate on the Early Earth.- Organic Molecules in Interstellar Space.- References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2014
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 291 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Boundary element method • Carr • Chemistry • Dialogue • Energy • ETA • Foundation • interstellar space • IRA • Miranda • Molecule • New York • Opera • space • Time
ISBN-10	3-642-87746-X / 364287746X
ISBN-13	978-3-642-87746-9 / 9783642877469
Zustand	Neuware