Grew up hearing about Miescher the way some families pass down a saint, a local son who found something enormous in a substance everyone else had already thrown away. Trained first as a chemist, then found the origin-of-life crowd almost by accident at a conference nobody important was supposed to be at, and never left. Keeps a running, only-half-joking bet going with three colleagues about which decade a real lab-made autocatalytic set will finally show up, and has money on the table for all three guesses, hedged, because he would rather lose a bet than be right for the wrong reason.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies