Science Reference Guides
"Origins of Life
in the Universe" --
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Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson/Haldane, J. B. S. (1892-1964)
Haldane, J. B. S. The causes of evolution. London, New York, Longmans,
Green and Co., 1932. 234 p.
QH366.H45
Haldane, J. B. S. Enzymes. London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1930. 235
p.
QP601.H25
Haldane, J. B. S. What is life? London, Lindsay Drummond, 1949. 261 p.
Q171.H1565 1949
Margulis, Lynn (1938-)
Margulis, Lynn. Origin of eukaryotic cells; evidence and research
implications for a theory of the origin and evolution
of microbial,
plant, and animal cells on the Precambrian earth. New Haven, Yale University
Press, 1970. 349 p.
QH581.2.M37
Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan. What is life? Foreword by Niles Eldredge.
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995.
207 p.
QH325.M298 1995
Miller, Stanley Lloyd (1930-2007)
Miller, S. L. Production of amino acids under possible primitive
earth conditions. Science, v. 117, May 15, 1953:
528.
Q1.S35
Miller, Stanley L., and Leslie E. Orgel. The origins
of life on the earth. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1974.
229 p.
QH325.M55
Miller, S. L., and H. C. Urey. Organic compound synthesis on the primitive
earth. Science, v. 130, July 31, 1959:
245.
Q1.S35
Oparin, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1894-1980)
International Symposium on the Origin of Life on the Earth
(1957, Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.). Proceedings. Edited for the
Academy of Sciences
of the U.S.S.R. Edited by A. I. Oparin and others. London, New
York, Pergamon Press, 1959.
691 p.
QH325.I5 1957
Molecular evolution: prebiological and biological. Edited by Duane L. Rohlfing
and A. I. Oparin. New York, Plenum Press, 1972. 481 p.
A volume commemorating the sixtieth birthday of Sidney W. Fox.
QH325.M65
Oparin, Aleksandr Ivanovich. The origin of life. Translated with annotations
by Sergius Morgulis. New York, The
Macmillan Company, 1938. 270 p.
QH325.O6
Oparin, Aleksandr Ivanovich and V. Fesenkov. The universe. Moscow, Foreign
Languages Publishing House, 1957. 232 p.
MLCS 93/15637
Sagan, Carl (1934-1996)
Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. New York, Random House, 1980. 365 p. QB44.2.S235
Sagan, Carl. Organic matter and the moon. Washington, National Academy
of Sciences, National Research
Council, 1961. 49 p.
QB591.S32
Sagan, Carl. The quest for life beyond the earth. Harvard alumni bulletin, v. 66, no. 12, Apr. 4, 1964: 508-513.
LH1.H3A5
Sagan, Carl, and Ann Druyan. Shadows of forgotten ancestors: a search
for who we are. New York, Random House,
1992. 505 p.
QH325.S24 1992
Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1861)
Schrödinger, Erwin. Expanding universes. Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1956. 93 p.
QB500/S36
Schrödinger, Erwin. What is life? and other scientific essays. Garden
City, Doubleday & Company, 1956. 263 p.
QH331.S356
Schrödinger, Erwin. What is life? The physical aspect of the living
cell. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1945. 91 p.
Based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Dublin Institute
for Advanced Studies at Trinity College,
Dublin, in February 1943.
QH331.S355 1945
Other References
Bastian, H. Charlton. The origin of life: being an account of experiments
with certain superheated saline solutions in
hermetically sealed
vessels. London, Watts & Co., 1911. 76 p.
QH325.B34
Symposium on Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1969. Irreversible
thermodynamics and
the origin of life. Edited by G. F. Oster, I. L. Silver, and C.
A. Tobias. New York, Gordon and
Breach Science Publishers, 1974.
69 p.
QH325.S88 1971
Compiled by Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D., July 2007
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