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Rose is particularly good on the critics of the government's often incoherent and inherently implausible civil-defense policies, including physicists like Harold Urey, biological scientists Bentley Glass and Barry Commoner, the founders of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and that worthy and venerable publication The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In a famously successful 1953 chemistry experiment at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey demonstrated that a spark of electricity coursing through a brew of hydrogen, water, ammonia, and methane could ignite a reaction that makes amino acids--the building blocks of proteins and, therefore, of all Earth's life. |
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Harold Urey - United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)