Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joshua Lederberg, Nobel-prizewinning geneticist of Stanford - University, doubted that instruments that do not actually land on a planet can determine whether it has life. Even if there are no large, conspicuous plants or animals to see from a distance, the soil may swarm with microscopic creatures, as does the earth's. Lederberg suggests equipping an interplanetary probe with a sort of artificial anteater that will stick out a tongue of transparent tape, touch it to the planet's soil, and draw it back again for study by a built-in microscope. The enlarged pictures of dust particles...
...Alien Planets. If a life-forming process happened on earth, said Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University, something similar probably happened on millions of other planets in the universe, and may have produced highly intelligent creatures...