–Gilbert Levin is an American engineer, the founder of Spherix and famous for experiments on Mars soil and the development of tagatose. For the Technical Symposium of NITK Surathkal Engineer , see Engineer (Technical Fest). ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Tagatose is a functional sweetener. ...

Commended

On the 8th December 2006 the Daily Telegraph published a letter by Dr Martin Wainwright, a biologist at Sheffield university, commending Levin: This article concerns the British newspaper. ...

Finding life on Mars

Sir - The news that the chances that life exists on Mars are increased by the discovery of water (report, December 7) will come as no surprise to the American scientist, Gill Levin.

Levin was involved in the original Viking mission to Mars in the 1970s. Ever since, he has provided convincing — but ignored — evidence that life has already been found on the red planet.

It is to be hoped that, when Nobel prizes are eventually awarded for the discovery of Martian life, due recognition will be given to Levin's pioneering, if overlooked, research.

Levin and Wainwright had attended the panspermia conference at Cardiff in September 2006 organized by Chandra Wickramasinghe. Panspermia is the hypothesis that the seeds of life are in the Universe, that they may have delivered life to Earth, and that they may deliver or have delivered life to other habitable bodies; also the process of such delivery. ...

External links

• Johns Hopkins Magazine on Gilbert Levin
• Spherix and Mars Research Papers
• "Life after Viking: The evidence mounts", written by Gilbert V. Levin, from the book "Mars: The Living Planet" (Chapter 9)