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There also had been similar electric discharge experiments related to the origin of life contemporaneous with Miller – Urey.

An article in The New York Times ( March 8, 1953: E9 ), titled " Looking Back Two Billion Years " describes the work of Wollman ( William ) M. MacNevin at The Ohio State University, before the Miller Science paper was published in May 1953.

MacNevin was passing 100, 000 volt sparks through methane and water vapor and produced " resinous solids " that were " too complex for analysis.

" The article describes other early earth experiments being done by MacNevin.

It is not clear if he ever published any of these results in the primary scientific literature.