Harold Urey

The most famous of all origin-of-life experiments was conducted in 1952 by University of Chicago graduate student Stanley Miller and his professor, Nobel Prize winner Harold Urey, in a small chemistry lab at their school.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

None other than Harold Urey, of Miller-Urey fame and a Nobel Prize laureate for other work, wrote in 1963 that “if found in a terrestrial object, some substances in meteorites would be indisputably regarded as biological.”

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

None other than Harold Urey, of Miller-Urey fame and a Nobel Prize laureate for other work, wrote in 1963 that “if found in a terrestrial object, some substances in meteorites would be indisputably regarded as biological.”

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

The most famous of all origin-of-life experiments was conducted in 1952 by University of Chicago graduate student Stanley Miller and his professor, Nobel Prize winner Harold Urey, in a small chemistry lab at their school.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Then he was meditating on something else entirely: two men in the 1950s, the chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, at the University of Chicago.

The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

She displayed a tremendous intellectual talent in her early years — having completed her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Hunter College (then a women's school) before the age of 18, designing a model of a combustion engine by 21, and obtaining a PhD under legendary chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey by 24 — that today would make her the pick of the scientific litter.

We Remember - Mildred Cohn, 1913 - 2009 2010

Last but certainly not least, experiments in the 1950s by Nobel Prize winner Harold Urey and Stanley Miller suggested that lightning may have created life itself by combining water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen.

Thunderstorms: Fickle & capricious for sure 2010

Then he was meditating on something else entirely: two men in the 1950s, the chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, at the University of Chicago.

The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

Cohn eventually returned to Columbia, where, under Harold Urey, she used isotopes to study reaction mechanisms.

Mildred Cohn. 2009

Every high school biology student (if they're awake) knows the story of the famous experiment concocted by Columbia's Harold Urey many decades ago.

Robert Teitelman: Goldman, J.P. Morgan and Wall St.'s Original Sin 2009