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Dr James Tour - Video series 

 

Addressing Abiogenesis & Common Misconceptions


Dr James M. Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Although American, Dr Tour became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom in 2020 and was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize for innovations in materials chemistry with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.

He has put together a series (some videos yet to be published) in which he addresses, from his wealth of practical and theoretical experience, the subject of "Abiogenesis".  Links to the series components are below.

00 Trailer

 

 01 Reasons


E1 Introduction


E2 Primordial Soup


E3 Hype


E4 Homochirality


E5 Carbohydrates


E6 Building blocks


E7 Peptides


E8 Nucleotides


E9 Intermediate Summary


E10 Lipids


E11 Chiral-induced

 

Sessions still to be published:

12 - Cell Construction & The Assembly Problem
13 - Summary & Projections: TBA