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Origin of Life

Proceedings of the Third ISSOL Meeting and the Sixth ICOL Meeting, Jerusalem, June 22–27, 1980

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Yecheskel Wolman

    1. Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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Table of contents (77 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Interstellar Molecules and the Origin of Life

    • R. D. Brown
    Pages 1-9

  3. Molecules in Interstellar Clouds

    • W. M. Irvine, Å. Hjalmarson, O. E. H. Rydbeck
    Pages 11-17

  4. On the Origin of Organic Molecules in Interstellar Space and Some of its Consequences

    • Kjell L. V. Johansson
    Pages 19-25

  5. Comets and the Origin of Life

    • W. M. Irvine, S. B. Leschine, F. P. Schloerb
    Pages 27-32

  6. Nature and Origin of Organic Molecules in Comets

    • A. H. Delsemme
    Pages 33-42

  7. Liquid Water on a Planet over Cosmic Periods

    • Michael D. Papagiannis
    Pages 43-50

  8. Organic Analysis of the Antarctic Carbonaceous Chondrites

    • R. K. Kotra, Akira Shimoyama, Cyril Ponnamperuma, P. E. Hare, K. Yanai
    Pages 51-57

  9. Nitrogen Compounds in Carbonaceous Meteorites: A Reassessment

    • Peter G Stoks, Alan W Schwartz
    Pages 59-64

  10. Abiotic Organic Synthesis in Space

    • M. R. Bloch, H. L. Wirth
    Pages 65-71

  11. Formation of Prebiotic Precursors from Model Reducing Atmospheres: Role of Hydrogen Escape

    • D. Mourey, F. Raulin, G. Toupance
    Pages 73-82

  12. Organic Chemical Evolution of Reducing Model of the Atmosphere of the Primitive Earth. Role of UV Light and Electric Discharges

    • A. Bossard, F. Raulin, D. Mourey, G. Toupance
    Pages 83-92

  13. Far UV Photolysis of Methane-Water Gaseous Mixtures and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Aldehydes

    • Alain Bossard, Gérard Toupance
    Pages 93-100

  14. Photolysis of CH4-NH3 Mixtures and PH3 as Models for the Photochemical Transformations on the Primitive Earth and Jupiter

    • James P. Ferris, John Y. Morimoto, Robert Benson
    Pages 101-105

  15. Possible Role of Phosphine in Chemical Evolution

    • F. Raulin, C. Ponnamperuma
    Pages 107-114

  16. Clays as Prebiotic Photocatalysts

    • Lelia M. Coyne, James Lawless, Noam Lahav, Stephen Sutton, Michael Sweeney
    Pages 115-124

  17. Clay-Mediated Reactions of HCN Oligomers. The Effect of the Oxidation State of the Clay

    • J. P. Ferris, K. W. Alwis, E. H. Edelson, N. Mount, W. J. Hagan Jr.
    Pages 125-128

  18. Chemical Evolution and Plate Tectonics

    • Dale E. Ingmanson, Michael J. Dowler
    Pages 129-134

  19. The Strecker Synthesis in the Primitive Ocean

    • Stanley L. Miller, James E. Van Trump
    Pages 135-141

  20. Photoassisted Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Formation of Two- and Three-Carbon Compounds

    • M. Halmann, B. Aurian-Blajeni, S. Bloch
    Pages 143-150
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About this book

This volume is a record of the 6th International Conference on the Origins of Life and the 3rd Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life. The conference was held under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Jerusalem from June 22nd to June 27th 1980. A few weeks prior to the conference, Academician Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin passed away. Oparin, the father and founder of the study of the origins of life, proposed over 50 years ago that modern biological molecules had abidogical origins in the past, thus the beginning of life on Earth was preceded by a long period of abiogenic molecular evolution. Oparin was planning to report on his latest work in the opening session of the meeting - "Natural Selection: A Leading Factor in Transition from the Non-Living Matter to Life". This lecture will never be delivered. In Hebrew we say of those who have died "may their memory be bound with the bonds of eternal life". For Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin those words have particular significance, for surely his pioneering work will endure as long as the spirit of scientific enquiry prevails. This meeting was dedicated to the memory of Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Yecheskel Wolman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Origin of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Third ISSOL Meeting and the Sixth ICOL Meeting, Jerusalem, June 22–27, 1980

  • Editors: Yecheskel Wolman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8420-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1229-5Published: 28 February 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8422-6Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8420-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 613

  • Topics: Paleontology

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