American chemist at Rice University — ranked among the top 10 most cited chemists in the world — specialist in nanotechnology and nanocars — known for his public challenges to origin of life researchers, arguing that the chemistry of abiogenesis remains fundamentally unsolved.
Creates the most technically rigorous public critique of origin of life chemistry from within chemistry — Tour's arguments (that current abiogenesis proposals don't account for homochirality, the combinatorial space problem, or the energy problem) are the most chemically specific challenges to the mainstream view.
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