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'''Leslie Orgel''' was a [[scientist]] who was active in research into the origin of life. He was a [[biochemist]] whose research included the structure of [[RNA]] and [[DNA]].
He died October 27,2007 of pancreatic cancer.
He was on the faculty of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego.
He proposed the hypothesis of [[Panspermia]], that life on Earth may have come from space.
==References==
* http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/us/05orgel.html
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