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62
Citations
20365
World Ranking
8691
National Ranking
2492

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1973 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Stanley L. Miller was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their academic work was concentrated primarily in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Epidemiology.

Their published research covered several topics, including:

  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Neonatal and Maternal Infections

Among the documented publications, one recent paper appeared in 2025:

  • "Navigating a stealthy invader: Insights from two different Streptococcus intermedius cases," published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care

This paper was co-authored with E. Anders, a frequent collaborator. The Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care was also the primary publication venue for their work.

Stanley L. Miller's contributions to medicine were recognized with the award of Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Best Publications

  • A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions

    Stanley L. Miller

  • Organic Compound Synthesis on the Primitive Earth

    Stanley L. Miller;Harold C. Urey

  • Production of Some Organic Compounds under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions1

    Stanley L. Miller

  • The case for an ancestral genetic system involving simple analogues of the nucleotides.

    Gerald F. Joyce;Alan W. Schwartz;Stanley L. Miller;Leslie E. Orgel

  • The Origins of Life on the Earth

    Stanley L. Miller;Leslie E. Orgel

  • The origin and early evolution of life: prebiotic chemistry, the pre-RNA world, and time.

    Antonio Lazcano;Stanley L Miller

  • Rates of decomposition of ribose and other sugars: implications for chemical evolution

    Rosa Larralde;Michael P. Robertson;Stanley L. Miller

  • The stability of the RNA bases: implications for the origin of life.

    Matthew Levy;Stanley L. Miller

  • A reassessment of prebiotic organic synthesis in neutral planetary atmospheres.

    H. James Cleaves;John H. Chalmers;Antonio Lazcano;Stanley L. Miller

  • Peptide nucleic acids rather than RNA may have been the first genetic molecule

    Kevin E. Nelson;Matthew Levy;Stanley L. Miller

  • Reasons for the occurrence of the twenty coded protein amino acids

    Arthur L. Weber;Stanley L. Miller

  • Prebiotic synthesis in atmospheres containing CH4, CO, and CO2. I. Amino acids.

    Gordon Schlesinger;Stanley L. Miller

  • An efficient prebiotic synthesis of cytosine and uracil

    Michael P. Robertson;Stanley L. Miller

  • The chemical conditions on the parent body of the Murchison meteorite: some conclusions based on amino, hydroxy and dicarboxylic acids.

    E.T. Peltzer;J.L. Bada;G. Schlesinger;S.L. Miller

  • Energy yields for hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde syntheses: the HCN and amino acid concentrations in the primitive ocean.

    Roscoe Stribling;Stanley L. Miller

  • Negative Pressure in the Interstitial Fluid of Animals

    P. F. Scholander;Alan R. Hargens;Stanley L. Miller

  • Carbon Dioxide Clathrate in the Martian Ice Cap

    Stanley L. Miller;William D. Smythe

  • Nonprotein amino acids from spark discharges and their comparison with the murchison meteorite amino acids.

    Yecheskel Wolman;William J. Haverland;Stanley L. Miller

  • The Cold Origin of Life: A. Implications Based On The Hydrolytic Stabilities Of Hydrogen Cyanide And Formamide

    Shin Miyakawa;H. James Cleaves;Stanley L. Miller

  • Prebiotic synthesis of hydrophobic and protein amino acids.

    David Ring;Yecheskel Wolman;Nadav Friedmann;Stanley L. Miller

  • The cold origin of life: B. Implications based on pyrimidines and purines produced from frozen ammonium cyanide solutions.

    Shin Miyakawa;H. James Cleaves;Stanley L. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey L. Bada
Jeffrey L. Bada University of California, San Diego
Leslie E. Orgel
Leslie E. Orgel Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Harold C. Urey
Harold C. Urey University of California, San Diego
Gerald F. Joyce
Gerald F. Joyce Salk Institute for Biological Studies
William J. Borucki
William J. Borucki Ames Research Center
Jason P. Dworkin
Jason P. Dworkin Goddard Space Flight Center
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
James F. Kasting
James F. Kasting Pennsylvania State University
Christopher H. House
Christopher H. House Pennsylvania State University
Edmond I. Eger
Edmond I. Eger University of California, San Francisco

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