Andrew Pohorille
Andrew Pohorille | |
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| Born | May 14, 1949 Szczecin, Poland |
| Died | January 6, 2024 (aged 74) |
| Education | University of Warsaw |
| Awards | NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal NASA Exceptional Service Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley UCSF NASA Ames Research Center |
| Doctoral advisor | David Shugar |
| Other academic advisors | Bernard Pullman |
Andrzej (Andrew) Pohorille (May 14, 1949 – January 6, 2024) was a Polish-American astrobiologist, biophysicist, and quantum chemist who worked mostly at the NASA-Ames Research Center and University of California, San Francisco. He was a leading scientist on the origin of life and biosignature detection at NASA. His work proposed that proteins may have been the first molecules to support life, challenging RNA-first theories of abiogenesis.