Brack A, Horneck G, Wynn-Williams D
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans, France.
Orig Life Evol Biosph. 2001 Aug-Oct;31(4-5):459-80. doi: 10.1023/a:1011832902468.
The question of the chemical origins of life is engraved in the European scientific patrimony as it can be traced back to the pioneer ideas of Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and more recently to Alexander Oparin. During the last decades, the European community of origin of life scientists has organized seven out of the twelve International Conferences on the Origins of Life held since 1957. This community contributed also to enlarge the field of research to the study of life in extreme environments and to the search for extraterrestrial life, i.e. exobiology in its classical definition or astrobiology if one uses a more NASA-inspired terminology. The present paper aims to describe the European science background in exo/astrobiology as well as the project of a European Network of Exo/Astrobiology.
生命的化学起源问题铭刻在欧洲科学遗产之中，因为它可以追溯到查尔斯·达尔文、路易·巴斯德的开创性思想，以及更近一些的亚历山大·奥帕林的思想。在过去几十年里，欧洲生命起源科学家群体组织了自1957年以来举办的十二次国际生命起源会议中的七次。这个群体还为将研究领域扩展到极端环境中的生命研究以及寻找地外生命做出了贡献，即按照传统定义的外星生物学，或者如果使用更受美国国家航空航天局启发的术语则是天体生物学。本文旨在描述欧洲在外星生物学/天体生物学方面的科学背景以及欧洲外星生物学/天体生物学网络项目。
