In hmolscience, Gosta Ehrensvard (1910-1980) was a Swedish physiological and biological chemist noted for his 1960 “living puddle” origin of life theory, according to which a body of water envisioned as a single diffuse organismal mass is the first form of life and for his later 1970s publications, namely: We and They: Molecules and Life in the Cosmos (1971) and Living Matter: What is Life? What is Biochemistry? (1973), wherein he seems to make “living matter” and “biochemistry” suspect to confusion, possibly precursory defunct theory of life and or life does not exist lines of thought.
American thinker Dean Wooldridge (1968), in his chapter on the origin of living cells, cites Ehrensvard’s “Out of Dust and Fire” and “Activity” chapters. [1]
A noted student (ΡΊ) of Ehrensvard is Klaus Mosbach. [3]
Quotes
The following are representative quotes:
“Life is older than organisms.”
— Gosta Ehrensvard (1960), Life: Origin and Development [2]
References
1. (a) Ehrensvard, Gosta. (1960). Life: Origin and Development (Liv: Ursprung och utformning) (§7: Out of Dust and Fire; §10: Activity). University of Chicago Press, 1962.
(b) Wooldridge, Dean. (1968). The Mechanical Man: the Physical Basis of Intelligent Life (§2:The Origin of Living Cells). McGraw-Hill.
2. (a) Ehrensvard, Gosta. (1960). Life: Origin and Development (Liv: Ursprung och utformning). University of Chicago Press, 1962.
(b) Williams, George C. (2008). Adaptation and Natural Selection: a Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (pg. 135). Princeton University Press.
3. Klaus Mosbach – Wikipedia.
Further reading
β Ehrensvard, Gosta. (1971). We and They: Molecules and Life in the Cosmos (Vi och de: molekyler och liv i kosmos) (editors: Gosta Ehrensvard and Jan Stenflo). Publisher.
β Ehrensvard, Gosta. (1973). Living Matter: What is Life? What is Biochemistry? (Levande materia: vad är liv? vad är biokemi?) Publisher.
External links
β Gosta Ehrensvard (chemist) (Swedish → English) – Wikipedia.
