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Leslie Eleazer Orgel
(12 Jan 1927 - 27 Oct 2007)
English-American evolutionary biologist and chemist whose studies of the early development of life helped form the theory of the biochemical origins of DNA, and RNA as its precursor.
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Science Quotes by Leslie Eleazer Orgel (2 quotes)
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
— Leslie Eleazer Orgel
In Jack D. Dunitz and Gerald F. Joyce, 'Leslie Eleazer Orgel', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (2013), Vol. 59, 286.
Orgel's First Rule: Whenever a spontaneous process is too slow or too inefficient a protein will evolve to speed it up or make it more efficient.
— Leslie Eleazer Orgel
In Jack D. Dunitz and Gerald F. Joyce, 'Leslie Eleazer Orgel', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (2013), Vol. 59, 286.
See also:
- 12 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Orgel's birth.
- The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection, by Leslie Orgel. - book suggestion.