He may have found the key to the origins of life. So why have so few heard of him?
An oil painting of Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti. Photograph by Painting by Laszlo Gulyas When biologist Tibor Gánti died on April 15, 2009, at the age of 75, he was far from a household name. Much of his career had been spent behind the Iron Curtain that divided Europe for decades, hindering an exchange of ideas. But if Gánti’s theories had been more widely known during the communist era, he might now be acclaimed as one of the most innovative biologists of the 20th century. That’s be...
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