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Svante Arrhenius

Swedish Nobel laureate chemist who proposed radiopanspermia in 1903: the idea that microscopic life could be propelled between star systems by the pressure of starlight itself, the first rigorous scientific formulation of panspermia.

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  • Svante Arrhenius authored Panspermia Hypothesis — Proposed radiopanspermia in 1903: microscopic life propelled between star systems by starlight pressure, the first rigorous scientific formulation of panspermia.

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  • Svante Arrhenius is associated with Francis Crick — Separated by seven decades, the two proposed panspermia's most influential natural and directed variants respectively.

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