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  1. 1930- . US chemist. In the early 1950s, under
  2. laboratory conditions, he tried to imitate
  3. the original conditions of the Earth's
  4. atmosphere (a mixture of methane, ammonia,
  5. and hydrogen), added an electrical discharge,
  6. and waited. After a few days he found that
  7. amino acids, the ingredients of protein, had
  8. been formed.
  9.