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Gilbert Levin

no band scientist status · verified public figure

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American Alchemy · 1:12:05

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American Alchemy · 1:23:22

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Levin (1924–2021) designed the Labeled Release experiment on the Viking landers and argued until his death that its positive results indicated microbial life on Mars. NASA attributed the results to chemistry. The corpus cites the debate.

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RolePrincipal investigator of the Viking Labeled Release experiment (1976)
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Viking Labeled Release biology experiment resultsDetection of perchlorate and the soluble chemistry of Martian soil at the Phoenix Lander site

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  • 1:12:05 Meet The Scientist BANNED By TED Talks (ft. Rupert Sheldrake) ▶
    Michael Levens with flat worms and learning I don't know if you're familiar with that experiment no what's the experiment well I'm a big fan of Michael Levin I and I think he's you know the most inventive biologist working I agree present yeah um and the he did these experiments with flat worms which are small worms which are flat that's why they're calle