Template:Did you know nominations/Harold Urey

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 11:03, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Harold Urey[edit]

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... that 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Harold Urey showed that Earth's early atmosphere could spontaneously produce amino acids, commonly considered the building blocks of life?

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Created/expanded by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self nominated at 21:03, 24 September 2013 (UTC).

Hugely expanded. Well cited. Easily long enough. This is a great article. The hook is quite long though, and the Miller-Urey experiment is quite controversial for how well it replicated the Earth's early atmosphere. Would this be better: ALT1: ... that Harold Urey showed that Earth's early atmosphere might spontaneously produce amino acids, commonly considered the building blocks of life? PhilMacD (talk) 10:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that would be fine. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:29, 25 September 2013 (UTC)