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Nature 440, 20 (2 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440020a; Published online 1 March 2006
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Biochemistry: The iceman of Svalbard
Quirin Schiermeier1
- Quirin Schiermeier is Nature's German correspondent.
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Abstract
Some say that life began in fire. Hauke Trinks thinks it began in ice, and is bent on taking the hard route to prove it. Quirin Schiermeier tells the Arctic adventurer's tale.
Hauke Trinks is obsessed with ice, specifically sea ice — ordinary frozen sea water. What others see as a frozen wasteland, this 63-year-old German physicist sees as the kind of place where the first chemical steps that led to life may have occurred.
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