Origins of Life

Dr. Vladivoj (Vlado) Valkovic, a retired professor of physics, is a fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Physics (London). He has authored 22 books (from Trace Elements (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1975) to Radioactivity in the Environment (Elsevier, 1st Edition 2001, 2nd Edition, 2019)) and more than 400 scientific and technical papers in the research areas of nuclear physics and applications of nuclear techniques to trace element analysis in biology, medicine and environmental research. He has lifelong experience in the study of nuclear reactions induced by 14 MeV neutrons. This research has been done through coordination and works on many national and international projects, including US–Croatia bilateral, NATO, IAEA, EU-FP5, EU-FP6 and EU-FP7 projects. He had worked as a professor of physics at Rice University, Houston, Texas; as a Head of Physics-Chemistry-Instrumentation Laboratory at IAEA, Vienna, Austria; and as Laboratory head and scientific advisor at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

Contents

Preface...................................................................................................xi

Introduction....................................................................................... xiii

Author..................................................................................................xxi

1 Chemical Elements Abundances

2 Galaxies, Galactic Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays

3 Galactic Chemical Evolution

4 Living Matter

5 Time and Place of the Origin of Life

6 Multiverse Cosmological Models and Anthropic Principle

7 Open Problems ・ Laboratory Experiments

Index................................................................................................... 389