Word: barghoorn
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...Barghoorn also tested the "moon rocks" for NASA during their Apollo Program from 1969 to 1971 to see if life existed on the moon...
...Barghoorn discovered the oldest known evidence of life on earth-3.4 billion-year-old microorganisms--while doing research in South Africa from...
Until that discovery, the earliest evidence of a living organism was more than two-billion-year-old fossils of primitive plants, which Barghoorn also discovered with Dr. Stanley Tyler of the University of Wisconsin during studies conducted in Southern Ontario...
...Eighty percent of the history of life was unknown before he started his research," a colleague and a former student of Barghoorn's Associate Professor of Biology Andrew H Knoll, said yesterday, adding that Barghoorn was the catalyst for the research over the past two decades...
...almost singlehandedly discovered what happened in the first five-sixth of life" on earth said Stephen J. Gould, Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Barghoorn's associate...