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Miller–Urey experiment
The
Miller–Urey experiment
(or
Miller experiment
) was a chemical
experiment
that simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the
early Earth
, and tested the
chemical origin of life
under those conditions. The experiment confirmed
Alexander Oparin
's and
J. B. S. Haldane
's hypothesis that putative conditions on the primitive Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized more complex
organic compounds
from simpler inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment investigating
abiogenesis
, it was conducted in 1952 by
Stanley Miller
, with assistance from professor
Harold Urey
, at the
University of Chicago
and later the
University of California, San Diego
and published the following year.
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