A scientist or scholar who studies abiogenesis or believes in the theory that life originated from non-living matter.
From abiogenesis + -ist (one who practices or believes). This term emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as scientists formalized theories about life's chemical origins.
Famous abiogenesists like J.B.S. Haldane and Aleksandr Oparin in the 1920s-30s proposed that the early Earth's atmosphere and oceans could have created life-building molecules, inspiring decades of experiments that continue today.
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