Primordial soup
Caldo primordial
- Date
- 1924 · confidence high
- Place
- Moscow, Russia
- Credited to
- Alexander Oparin
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A hypothesis on the origin of life proposing that, on the early Earth, carbon, hydrogen, water vapour and ammonia reacted to form the first organic compounds; proposed by Oparin in 1924 and by Haldane in 1929.
Also known as the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis; it gained credibility in 1953 with the Miller–Urey experiment.
What it led to
- The Miller–Urey experiment (1953)
- Modern research on the origin of life (abiogenesis)