Biomoz

Harold C. lirey (1893•1981), an Astronomer, accorded the first adequate recognition of Opartn-Haldane’s view on the origin of life In 1952. Urey asked his student Stanely L. Miller, a biochemist, to replicate the primordial atmosphere as propounded by Opartn and Haldane. Miller (1953) made the first successful simulation experiment to assess the validity of the claim for origin of organic molecules in the primeval Earth condition. Miller sealed in a spark chamber a mixture of water H20, methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen gas (h2). He made arrangement for insertion of two electrodes to provide electrical energy (Simulation of lightening) to the spark chamber. The spark chamber was connected to another flask with arrangement for boiling water (provision for evaporation). The other end of the spark chamber was connected to a trap by a tube that passed through a condenser (an arrangement for condensation and collection of aqueous solution, equivalent to rain and Haldane’s soup). The trap, in turn, was connected with the flask for boiling water (arrangement for circulation). The control apparatus contained every arrangement except that It was devoid of energy source.