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This Lab was founded by Professor Albert Eschenmoser in 1996; he retired in 2009.

Professor Albert Eschenmoser

Eschenmoser

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Eschenmoser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56edCfCJF3I

https://www.bi.id.ethz.ch/personensuche/detail.do?pid=1306A&lang=EN

Etiology of Potentially Primordial Biomolecular Structures: From Vitamin B12 to the Nucleic Acids and an Inquiry into the Chemistry of Life’s Origin— A Retrospective

Abstract

“We’ll never be able to know” is a truism that leads to resignation with respect to any experimental effort to search for the chemistry of life’s origin. But such resignation runs radically counter to the challenge imposed upon chemistry as a natural science. Notwithstanding the prognosis according to which the shortest path to understanding the metamorphosis of the chemical into the biological is by way of experimental modeling of “artificial chemical life”, the scientific search for the route nature adopted in creating the life we know will arguably never truly end. It is, after all, part of the search for our own origin.

http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/eschenmoser-albert.aspx

http://www.fi.edu/winners/2008/eschenmoser_albert.faw?winner_id=4414

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hlca.19960790503/abstract

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2004/CC/b401124b

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402007017176

(An interview with Professor Albert Eschenmoser)

http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20080421/eschenmoser.html

Photos

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