THE SECRET OF LIFE
CHEMICAL CREATION? Sir Oliver Lodge’s Views Arouse Great Interest SCIENTISTS AT WORK. [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received June 10, 8 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, June 10. Sir Oliver Lodge’s bold prediction that life will one day be produced in the chemists’ laboratories has created interest in scientific circles. Professor Haldane, lecturer in biochoistry at Cambridge, challenges Sir Oliver’s views. He says the big chemists are gradually building up out of inorganic materials some simpler kinds of molecules found in living beings, but these do not contain more than about 100 atoms, whereas the molecules of protein, a characteristic living matter, consists of 5,000 to 10,000 atoms, arranged in quite a definite manner. Personally he suspects the world will have to wait, not one but several centuries, before life is created in the laboratory, if ever.
Professor Huxley expresses the opinion that the creation of living from non-living matter cannot be regarded as impossible. There are many people working on the subject at the present time, he says.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19864, 11 June 1927, Page 7
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