Graham Cairns-Smith

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Graham Cairns-Smith

Chemistry

#1170

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#1832

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Graham Cairns-Smith

Biology

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#1973

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Biochemistry

#407

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#485

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Molecular Biology

#2354

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#2390

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According to Wikipedia, Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith FRSE was an organic chemist and molecular biologist at the University of Glasgow. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained a Ph.D. in Chemistry . He was most famous for his controversial 1985 book Seven Clues to the Origin of Life.

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Genetic takeover and the mineral origins of life (1982) (460)
Photo-oxidation of hydrated Fe2+—significance for banded iron formations (1983) (264)
Precambrian solution photochemistry, inverse segregation, and banded iron formations (1978) (198)
The origin of life and the nature of the primitive gene. (1966) (187)
Clay minerals and the origin of life (1986) (132)
Submarine hot springs and the origin of life (1988) (102)
Mineral Theories of the Origin of Life and an Iron Sulfide Example (1992) (84)
The First Organisms (1985) (67)
Chapter 9 Mineral theories of the origin of life and an iron sulfide example (2005) (63)
Photo-oxidation of iron(II) in water between pH 7.5 and 4.0 (1984) (57)
Chemistry and the missing era of evolution. (2008) (48)
Seven clues to the origin of life : a scientific detective story (1985) (47)
Morphology and CO2 uptake in tobermorite gel (1975) (34)
Sketches for a Mineral Genetic Material (2005) (34)
Marine hydrothermal systems and the origin of life: future research. (1992) (32)
Takeover mechanisms and early biochemical evolution. (1977) (31)
Evolving the Mind: On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness (1996) (30)
The Life Puzzle: On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor (1971) (27)
Formose production by minerals: possible relevance to the origin of life. (1972) (23)
High-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of cyclohexane C6H12 and C6D12 (1992) (21)
Photoprecipitation and the banded iron-formations — Some quantitative aspects (1987) (18)
The chemistry of materials for artificial Darwinian systems (1988) (17)
A case for an alien ancestry (1975) (17)
An Electron Microscope Study of Magnesium Smectite Synthesis (1973) (14)
Looking for life (1983) (12)
Layer morphology and growth mechanisms in barium ferrites (1996) (11)
233. Tautomerism in the solid state. Part II (1961) (9)
The simulation of condensed phases in cyclohexane clusters (1990) (9)
34. Tautomerism in the solid state. Part I. Thermochromism of heterocyclic phenols (1961) (8)
Spot-line chromatography: a technique for studying interactions between proteins and dyes. (1961) (6)
Direct observation of hydrated electrons in the u.v. photo-oxidation of [Fe(H2O)6]2+ (1983) (6)
Electron microscope studies of synthetic hectorite (1971) (6)
Reactions of p-nitrophenyl dodecanoate in normal and modified cholic acid micelles (1978) (4)
Ambiguity in the interpretation of abiotic syntheses (2005) (4)
In the beginning (1984) (4)
PHOTOOXIDATION OF IRON(II) IN WATER BETWEEN PH 7.5 AND 4.0 (1984) (3)
The two of me (1999) (3)
Remarks on the Review Article “Replication and Evolution in Inorganic Systems” by Armin Weiss (1986) (2)
The Methods of Science and the Origins of Life (1974) (2)
7. A Quest for an Easy Life (1971) (1)
History in science (1989) (1)
Beginnings of Organic Evolution (1981) (1)
Search for crystal genes (1986) (1)
Robert Shapiro 1935–2011 (2012) (1)
An Approach Sc a Blueprint for a Primitive Organism (2017) (1)
Photoprecipitation and the bifs: Some quantitative aspects (1986) (1)
Materials for “First Steps” in Evolution (2001) (1)
Qualia en croûte (1999) (0)
A working image (1999) (0)
Doing as we like (1999) (0)
Book review (2005) (0)
High‐Pressure Raman Spectroscopic Study of Cyclohexane C6H12 and C6D12. (1993) (0)
Book-Review - Genetic Takeover (1982) (0)
Nature's other replicator (1996) (0)
Synthesis of nylon-like oligoamides (1969) (0)
Chemicals unbottled (1996) (0)
Chapter 10 Future research (2005) (0)
6. On Becoming Organised (1971) (0)
It’s a funny old world (1999) (0)
8. Genetic Metamorphosis (1971) (0)
How might brains have feelings (1999) (0)
Why a phenomenal world (1999) (0)
5. On Being Organised (1971) (0)
Secrets of the Mind (1999) (0)
Issol and “Artificial life” (1989) (0)
Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity (1999) (0)
Robert Shapiro 1935–2011 (2011) (0)
Adam, Jean-Michel; Borel, Marie-Jeanne; Calame, Claude; and Kilani, Mondher, Le dis-cours anthropologique: Description, narration, savoir (nouvelle edition revue et augmentee)(= Sciences humaines). Lausanne: Editions Payot Lausanne, 1995. Allert, Beate (ed.), Languages of Visuality: Crossings betwee (1997) (0)
Arrows and Desires (1999) (0)
REACTIONS OF P‐NITROPHENYL DODECANOATE IN NORMAL AND MODIFIED CHOLIC ACID MICELLES (1979) (0)
First sentences (1988) (0)
Bioastronomy (Commission 51) (1994) (0)
Straight talk, double talk, fast talk (1999) (0)
The fabrics of the world (1999) (0)
In the Light of Evolution: (2021) (0)
Primitive metabolsim. (1974) (0)
A strange device (1999) (0)
Blueprint for a cell: the nature and origin of life: By Christian de Duve. Pp. 275. Portland Press, Colchester. 1991. £17.95 (1991) (0)
Leading cases on rent restriction : with an introductory outline (0)
Chemistry and the Missing Era of Evolution (2008) (0)

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