Studies on the           Origin of Life

Some of the Major Scientists in the Field:
 

Christoph Adami (Artificial life) 

Gustaf Arrhenius (Surface-active mineral sorption in nucleic acid formation)

Jeffrey L. Bada (Sources, stability, and composition of early organic material) 

André Brack (Metallic ions in peptide prebiotic chemistry along with other studies in the molecular origins of life) 

A. Graham Cairns-Smith (Clay matrix models of prelife scaffolding)

Melvin Calvin (Carbon dioxide assimilation in plants) 

Thomas R. Cech and Sidney Altman (Ribozymes and the catalytic nature of RNA) 

Francis Crick (DNA and "directed panspermia")

Russell Doolittle (Evolution of proteins) 

Christian de Duve (Structural and functional organization of the cell; two books and much research on life origins)

Freeman Dyson (Metabolism first  model) 

Manfred Eigen (In vitro nucleotide polymerization, mutation, and selection) 

Albert Eschenmoser (Multiple origin-of-life contributions) 

James P. Ferris (Prebiotic chemical evolution and Editor of OLEB) 

Hyman Hartman (Evolution of photosynthetic metabolic pathways) 

Sir Frederick Hoyle (Astrobiology and panspermia)

Gerald Joyce (Biochemistry of RNA enzymes) 

Stuart Kauffman (NK models and complexity theory) 

Bernd-Olaf Küppers (Information theory and the origin of life)
 
Christopher G. Langton (Artificial life) 

Lynn Margulis (Mitochondrial evolution) 

Stanley Miller (Biomolecule self-assembly)

Harold J. Morowitz (Condensation of amphiphilic molecules to form vesicles) 

Leslie Orgel ("Directed panspermia" and lifetime of origin-of-life research) 

Guy Ourisson (Cell membranes and evolution; Pres. French Academy of Sciences) 

Juan Oró (Prebiotic formation of adenine) 

Ilya Prigogine (Dissipative structures and self-ordering tendencies) 

P. Schimmel (Genetic Code)

Robert Shapiro (DNA research and objective analysis of origin-of-life problems) 

Jack Szostak (Oligonucleotide and RNA research) 

Charles H. Townes (Biophysics)

Craig Ventor (gene sequencing, synthesis of life)

Carl R. Woese (Bacterial classification and evolution) 

Hubert P. Yockey (Information theory and molecular biology) 

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