Homer Jacobson

Homer Jacobson ( born November 27, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American professor of chemistry at Brooklyn College, New York.

1955 - two years after the Miller - Urey experiment - Jacobson had published in the journal " American Scientist " published an article entitled "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life." In this article, he claimed without evidence that lightning should be excluded as the cause of biochemical processes.

2007 Jacobson was a search on Google points out that in the meantime be forgotten by him referred to as articles of creationist fundamentalist religious science opponents has been cited as evidence against evolution. He then pulled off his blank and incorrect according to current knowledge statement back. Furthermore, Jacobson asked the editors of American Scientist to return this and yet another passage from his publication of 1955.

Publications

• " Virustat, a Device for Continuous Production of Viruses, " Applied Microbiology, 14 (6): 940-952 (1966 November ) with Leslie S. Jacobson.
• "The informational content of mechanisms and circuits ," Information and Control, 2 ( 3) :285 -296, september 1959.
• "On Models of Reproduction, " American Scientist 46 (1958 ) :255 - 284.
• "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life, " American Scientist, p. 125 ( January 1955) Retraction of two passages: Letter to the editor, American Scientist (November- December 2007 ); So see Cornelia Dean: '55 ' ​​Origin of Life ' Paper Is Retracted, New York Times. 25 October 2007.