CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Organic Molecules & the Miller Urey Experiment
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examines how the first organic molecules were formed. The experiment of Stanley Miller and Harold Urey is explored along with the RNA world hypothesis.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
At this website from The Nobel e-Museum, read about Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981 CE), the chemist awarded with a Nobel Prize "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." Download Urey's Nobel Lecture, "Some thermodynamic properties of...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Rna Was the First Genetic Molecule
RNA is now considered to be the first molecule that could transmit information. This article looks at the scientists and experiments that developed this idea. Article includes animations, pictures, video, biographical information, and...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Harold Urey
Read about Harold Urey, the scientist who discovered deuterium, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work made a significant impact in an unusually wide range of scientific fields including cosmochemistry.