CREATION OF LIFE
LENGTHY PROCESS SIR OLIVER LODGE’S VIEWS CHALLENGED FIRST STEPS ALREADY TAKEN (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) London, June 10, Sir Oliver Lodge’s bold prediction that life will one day be produced in a chemist’s laboratory has created interest in scientific circles. Professor Haldane, leader in the bio-chem-istry section at Cambridge, challenges Sir Oliver Lodge’s views. He says that big chemists are gradually building up out of inorganic materials some of the simpler kinds of molecule found in living beings, but which do not contain more than about one hundred atoms, whereas the molecules of protein, characteristic of living matter, consist of five to ten thousand atoms, arranged in quite definite matter. Personally he suspects that we will have to wait, not one, but several centuries before life is created in a laboratory, if ever.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20201, 11 June 1927, Page 7
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140CREATION OF LIFE Southland Times, Issue 20201, 11 June 1927, Page 7
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