... t organic materials would coalesce spontaneously. And Oparin got his ideas from this Dutch chemist, Bungenberg de Jong, who wrote in 1922 a book he called Complex Coacervation, which is like a colloid that reestablishe ...
... with one another. Some of them love oily materials. Some that are more water-loving. But Oparin and Bungenbergde Jong were the pioneers of the gel-conception of cytoplasm, even though there were people who realised th ...
Sydney Fox, who was a student of Oparin's and understood de Jong's work, and he suggested that maybe life didn’t start in the soup. He thought, possibly, condensing a ...
... er the microscope. And it had formed something much more specific than the complex coacervates that Bungenberg de Jong had studied.
... an hour or two, Sidney Fox demonstrated something very much like the origin of life that Oparin and Bungenberg de Jong had just postulated as possible. Sidney Fox demonstrated real growing organisms-like things with re ...