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Miller-Urey Experiment
On 15 May 1953, the journal Science includes an article by Stanley Miller (a graduate student under the supervision of Harold Urey) entitled “Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions”. (Commonly referred to as the “Miller-Urey Experiment”).

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of the Miller-Urey experiment see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1976

Abell, George in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 56 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Search for Life Beyond Earth : A Scientific Update”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition.

1

1965

Allen, Tom in his “The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial life " (1965) at pages 57, 58, 60-61 (in Chapter 4) of the Chilton hardback edition.

4

1985

Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in the entry entitled “exobiology”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.

1

1976

Asimov, Isaac in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Of Life Beyond : Man’s Age-Old Speculations”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition.

1

1979

Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-156 (in Chapter 9) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 178-179 of the Pan paperback edition.

2

1977

Bourret, Jean-Claude in his “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Part 3) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

2

1974

Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 1) of the Heinemann softcover edition.

1

1997

Brin, David in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 224-225 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition.

2

1979

Brunstein, Karl in his “Beyond the Four Dimensions” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 119-122 (in Chapter 6) of the Walker softcover edition.

4

1990

Calvin, Melvin in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-121, 131 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Melvin Calvin”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

3

1976

Christian, James L in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21, 23-25 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Story of Life : Earth’s Four-Billion-Year Beginning”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition.

5

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 167 (in Chapter 5) of the Fromm hardback edition.

1

2000

Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 5) of the Springer hardback edition.

1

2002

Cohen, Jack and Stewart, Ian in their “Evolving the Alien” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in Chapter 4) of the Ebury Press hardback edition.

2

1974

Collyns, Robin in his “Did Spacemen Colonise The Earth?” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 235 (in Chapter 20) of the Mayflower paperback edition.

1

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 40 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at page 29 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

1

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 136 (in the entry entitled “evolutionary theory and extraterrestrial life”), 276-277 (in the entry entitled “Miller-Urey Experiment”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

3

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Miller-Urey Experiment”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/MillerUreyexp.html

1

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-64 (in Chapter 3), 153, 158 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley softcover edition.

6

1995

Davies, Paul in his “Are we Alone?“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 9 (in Chapter 1) of the Penguin paperback edition.

1

1998

Davies, Paul in his “The Fifth Miracle” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-63 (in Chapter 3) of the Penguin Press hardcover edition.

8

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171, 175-176, 185 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

4

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3 (in the Introduction), 345-348, 356, 376 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

7

1980

Dickerson, Richard E in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-50, 54 (in Chapter 12) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life”, Scientific Americain, 239 (1978.0900), pages 70-86.

3

1997

DiGregorio, Barry E in “Mars: The Living Planet” (1997) (by Barry E DiGregorio with Gilbert V Levin and Patricia Ann Straat) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4, 7 (in the Introduction) of the Frog hardback edition.

2

1991

Drake, Frank and Dava Sobel in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 (in Chapter 3) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

2

1978

Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-37 (in Chapter 3) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter).

3

1975

Fairley, Peter in his “Is there Life in Outer Space?” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 2) of the Look-In softcover edition.

2

1980

Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 117-129 (in Chapter 5) of the Morrow hardback edition.

13

1977

Gallant, Roy A in “Beyond Earth : The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 75 (in Chapter 7) of the Four Winds hardback edition.

1

1980

Goldsmith, Donald and Tobias Owen in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-179 (in Chapter 9) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 191-195 (in Chapter 8) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition.

6

1997

Goldsmith, Donald in his “The Hunt For Life On Mars” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-147, 149-151 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Origin of Life”) of the Dutton hardback edition.

7

1990

Guthke, Karl S in his “The Last Frontier : Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction: Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in Chapter 1.1) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

1

1997

Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

1

1983

Hickson, Charles and Mendez, William in their “UFO Contact at Pascagoula” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163 (in Chapter 6) of the Stevens hardback edition.

2

1994

Horn, Arthur D and Horn, Lynette M in their “Humanity's Extraterrestrial Origins” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13, 15 (in Chapter 1) of the Silberschnur softcover edition.

3

1984

Hyams, Ron in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Reach for the stars”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 1, page 223.

1

1998

Jakosky, Bruce in his “The Search for Life on Other Planets” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-101 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge University softcover edition.

7

1989

Jastrow, Robert in his “Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration - Tomorrow and Beyond” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118, 121 (in Chapter 8) of the Bantam softcover edition.

2

2000

Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-21 (in Chapter 1) of the Oxford softcover edition.

4

1999

Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 209 (in Chapter 20) of the Alpha Books softcover edition.

1

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 3) of the Routledge softcover edition.

2

1998

Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 1) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition).

1

1987

McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley softcover edition.

1

1963

Melvin, Calvin in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 5) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.

1

1977

Menzel, Donald and Ernest Taves in their “The UFO Enigma“ (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-201 of the Doubleday hardback edition (in Chapter 15).

2

1987

Moore, Patrick and Jackson, Francis in their “Life in the Universe” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63-64, 66 (in Chapter 2) of the Norton softcover edition.

3

1955

Nelson, The Earl in his “There is Life on Mars” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132 (in the Notes) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition.

1

1971

Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John et al in “Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR 114445”)” (1971) (edited by Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 2) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition.

2

1990

Oliver, Bernard M in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Bernard M Oliver”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-36 (in Chapter 3) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

5

1968

Pauwels, Louis and Bergier, Jacques in their “Impossible Possibilities” (1968) at pages 146-147 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Life Out of a Test Tube”) of the Mayflower paperback edition.

2

1982

Ponnamperuma, Cyril and Navarro-Gonzalez, Rafael in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 110-112 (in Chapter 13) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

3

1974

Ponnamperuma, Cyril in “Interstellar Communication : Scientific Perspectives” (1974) (edited by Cyril Ponnamperuma and A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 53 (in Chapter 3) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition.

1

1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25, 44 (in the chapter entitled “Chicago 1951-60”), 91 (in the chapter entitled “Cambridge 1963-1968”), 329 (in the chapter entitled “Ithaca 1981-95”) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

6

1983

Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 89, 90 (in Chapter 7) of the Granada hardback edition.

2

1975

Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-67 (in Chapter 4) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 65-66 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”.

2

1980

Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-67, 84 (in Chapter 5) of the Scribners hardback edition.

5

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Life in Our Galactic Homeland”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1985

Ruse, Michael in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Part 2) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.

1

1980

Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 2) of the Abacus softcover edition.

2

1969

Sendy, Jean in his “Those Gods Who Made Heaven and Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 22 (in Chapter 2) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1982

Shapiro, Robert and Feinberg, Gerald in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167 (in Chapter 18) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

2

1999

Shapiro, Robert in his “Planetary Dreams” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-111 (in Chapter 5), 134, 138 (in Chapter 6) of the Wiley hardback edition.

8

1963

Shapley, Harlow in his “The View from a Distant Star” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-58 (in Chapter 5) of the Basic Books hardback edition.

3

1997

Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in Chapter 16) of the Bloomsbury softcover edition.

1

1966

Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 229-235, 243-244 (in Chapter 17) of the Picador softcover edition.

9

1998

Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-69 (in Chapter 4) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition.

2

1964

Simpson, George Gaylord in his “This View of Life” (1964) at page 260 (in Chapter 13) of the Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover edition.

1

1974

Spencer, John Wallace in his “No Earthly Explanation” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 147-148 (in Chapter 7) of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1964

Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99, 100-101, 103, 109-110 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback revised editions.

6

2002

Tarter, Jill in “SETI 2020 : A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (2002) (edited by Elkers, Ronald D and Cullers, Kent D and Billingham, John and Scheffer, Louis K) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 286 (in Appendix A, entitled “Cyclops Revisited”) of the SETI Press softcover edition.

1

1968

Von Daniken, Erich in his “Return to the Stars” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-32 (in Chapter 2) of the Corgi paperback edition, at pages 17-19 of the Bantam paperback editions later published under the title “Gods From Outer Space”.

4

2000

Ward, Peter and Brownlee, Don in their “Rare Earth” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xx (in the Introduction), 63, 66-67 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus softcover edition.

4

1977

Washburn, Mark in his “Mars at Last!” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 85 (in Chapter 7) of the Abacus paperback edition.

1

2002

Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-201 (in Chapter 5) of the Copernicus hardback edition.

2

1998

White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-40 (in Chapter 2) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition.

4

1997

Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 3), 139 (in Chapter 9) of the Monarch softcover edition.

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Other Material

Miller, S., 1953, “A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions” Science, volume 117, pages 528-529

See also Miller, S L, and Urey, H C “Organic Compound Synthesis on the Primitive Earth,” Science, 130, 245 (1959)

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