In 1953, at the University of Chicago, chemist Harold Urey conducted an experiment.

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After some negotiation, however, Mr Miller persuaded Urey that he was the one to turn this proposal into glassware and make it work.

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To Urey's credit, the young Mr Miller did not suffer the common fate of graduate students relegation to the sidelines when the master's hypothesis is proved right.

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Urey, too, had been involved in atomic-bomb work.

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