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Joan Oró i Florensa (Lleida , Spain , October 26 , 1923 - Barcelona , Spain, September 2 , 2004 ) was a Catalan biochemist , whose research has been of importance in understanding the origin of life .
1960s , he worked with the NASA , within the Viking missions that explored the planet Mars . His work was essential in the analysis of samples of Martian soil, and to rule out the possibility of life in Mars.
homosexual at age twenty-two.
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Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain. Joan Miró won the 1954 Venice Biennale printmaking prize. Joan Miró died in Mallorca, Spain, and was interred in the Montjuic cemetery in Barcelona .
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This experiment inspired many experiments in a similar vein. In 1961, Joan Oro found that amino acids could be made from hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and ammonia in a water solution. He also found that his experiment produced a large amount of the nucleotide base adenine.
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