University of Oxford California Institute of Technology University of Chicago
Known for
Orgel diagram Origin of life Orgel's rules
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Institutions
University of Oxford University of Cambridge
Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS[1] (12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a British chemist. He is known for his theories on the origin of life.
^Dunitz, Jack D.; Joyce, Gerald F. (1 December 2013). "Leslie Eleazer Orgel. 12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 59: 277–289. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0002. ISSN 0080-4606.
Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS (12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a British chemist. He is known for his theories on the origin of life. LeslieOrgel was...
like Tanabe–Sugano diagrams. They are named after their creator, LeslieOrgel. Orgel diagrams are restricted to only show weak field (i.e. high spin)...
Orgel or orgel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orgel is a surname, and may refer to: Doris Orgel (born 1929), children's literature author Leslie...
"specified complexity" was originally coined by origin of life researcher LeslieOrgel in his 1973 book The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection...
analogs. There was an earlier use of the term introduced in 1963 by LeslieOrgel in a theory for cellular aging, in which errors in the translation of...
Dawkins, two papers were published back-to-back in Nature in 1980 – by LeslieOrgel and Francis Crick and by Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza – introducing...
origins of the genetic code. In 1966, Crick took the place of LeslieOrgel at a meeting where Orgel was to talk about the origin of life. Crick speculated about...
give rise to RNA molecules which replicate, mutate, and evolve. 1974 – LeslieOrgel showed that RNA can replicate without RNA-replicase and that zinc aids...
d orbitals in transition metal complexes. John Stanley Griffith and LeslieOrgel championed ligand field theory as a more accurate description of such...
by the British press. Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, LeslieOrgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to...
dispute. LUCA systems and environment included the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway. LeslieOrgel argued that early translation machinery for the genetic code would be...
decreases by 2%. Orgel's rules, in evolutionary biology, are a set of axioms attributed to the evolutionary biologist LeslieOrgel: First rule: "Whenever...
known biological catalysts. In 1967, Carl Woese, Francis Crick, and LeslieOrgel were the first to suggest that RNA could act as a catalyst. This idea...
extinctions, or were lost in other ways. Biochemists Francis Crick and LeslieOrgel laid special emphasis on this uncertainty: "At the moment we have no...
Institute in 1985, Joyce worked under prominent RNA world researcher LeslieOrgel. He was a professor at The Scripps Research Institute until 2017 and...
(deceased), Nobel laureate (for DNA double helix structure description). LeslieOrgel (deceased), former Senior Fellow and Research Professor Marguerite Vogt...
Nearer Secret of Life". Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, LeslieOrgel, and Beryl M. Oughton were some of the first people in April 1953 to...
In the late 60s, Ferris published a set of collaborative studies with LeslieOrgel that elucidated several prebiotic pathways for the synthesis of biologically...
as a primordial molecule can be found in papers by Francis Crick and LeslieOrgel, as well as in Carl Woese's 1967 book The Genetic Code. Hans Kuhn in...
Sidney W. Fox Walter Gordy Edgar Heilbronner Jan Ketelaar Hans Kuhn LeslieOrgel Alexander Rich Seymour Jonathan Singer Signature Notes The only person...
supporter. In April 1953, together with Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, LeslieOrgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, Hodgkin was one of the first people to travel...
First proposed in 1972 by Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, along with LeslieOrgel, directed panspermia is the theory that life was deliberately brought...
Wickramasinghe, and by molecular biologist Francis Crick and chemist LeslieOrgel. There are three main versions of the "seeded from elsewhere" hypothesis:...
method of DNA analysis Walter Munk – oceanographer, lived in La Jolla LeslieOrgel – research chemist, lived in La Jolla 1964–2007 Erving Polster – psychologist...
simple TNA the first nucleic acid on Earth to carry a genetic code?, New Scientist (behind paywall) ORIGIN OF LIFE: A Simpler Nucleic Acid, LeslieOrgel...
had arranged for him to work with LeslieOrgel, who would turn his scientific career onto a different pathway. Orgel introduced him to Francis Crick and...
Institute in California. Together with Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, LeslieOrgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, he was one of the first people in April 1953 to...
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