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Sidney W. Fox

August 10, 1998

American biochemist (1912–1998)

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Sidney Walter Fox was an American biochemist. He dedicated his studies to the chemistry of proteins and the origin of life. He gained notoriety in the mainstream press by claiming that the spherical aggregates (microspheres) he obtained by suspending the material obtained by thermal dehydration of amino acids (proteinoids) in water could be equated with primitive forms of life.

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