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Laboratory synthesis of ATP, adenosine triphosphate, marking a major break-through in the investigation of the origin of life, was announced Sunday by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The experimental results have just been published in the British journal Nature by Carl Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy and a member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and by Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma and Miss Ruth Mariner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sagan Synthesizes ATP In Laboratory | 8/21/1963 | See Source »

...Sagan synthesized the molecule by shining ultraviolet light on a solution of compounds comparable to those found in the Earth's primitive oceans about four billion years ago. Unlike today, ultraviolet light probably reached the primitive Earth unhindered by a dense atmosphere. If this was the case, organisms obtained most of their energy directly from the sun, instead of from photosynthesis or a break-down of food as organisms must do today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sagan Synthesizes ATP In Laboratory | 8/21/1963 | See Source »

...offers its customers nothing more than hour after hour of phonograph records and a chance to dance where there is no room to breathe. Having such creatures as null Sagan, Porfirio Rubirosa and Yves Saint-Laurent under his electrified baton was excuse enough for the Pavlovian power Warfield felt, but like all pioneer artists, he was misunderstood in his time. Last week, for all his genius, he was fired on the implied charge that he was turning the Princesse into a laboratory for psy-chomusical research; he had become a power-crazed, prima donna player of the phonograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentalists: The Compleat Virtuosi | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Landru. Another Chabrol film, with a script by Francoise Sagan, this one is a kind of comedy of murders, based on the story of the French Bluebeard who killed off ten women during World War 1. Two of the victims: Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: may 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Francoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michèle Morgan are among Landru's victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 24, 1963 | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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