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	Chandra Wickramasinghe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 20 January 1939) is professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology.
		Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe was born in Sri Lanka and was educated at Royal College, Colombo and later at the University of Ceylon.
		Chandra Wickramasinghe is acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading experts on interstellar material and the origins of life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe (995 words)

	Wickramasinghe, Chandra
		A long-time colleague of the late Fred Hoyle, Wickramasinghe is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University of Wales and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology.
		Wickramasinghe and Hoyle began arguing for a modern version of panspermia in the mid-1970s.
		In 1974 Wickramasinghe proposed that dust in interstellar space and in comets was largely organic – an idea that now has wide observational support.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/W/Wickramasinghe.html (285 words)

	Panspermia Q and A: Leading Proponent Chandra Wickramasinghe - UFO Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Summary: Astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe is director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology.
		Wickramasinghe, who proposed in 1974 that dust in interstellar space and in comets was largely organic, is currently developing methods for detecting life processes in space.
		Astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe is director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1963.htm (923 words)

	Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology; latest news; new books; new developments; researching panspermia and the origins of ...
		Chandra Wickramasinghe's new book "A Journey with Fred Hoyle" published by World Scientific and Imperial College London Press is to appear this month and has already had some good reviews.
		Chandra Wickramasinghe was the John Snow Memorial Lecturer and medallist of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
		Chandra Wickramasinghe presented the preliminary results of analysis of stratospheric air samples that were brought to Cardiff in March 2001 at the SPIE Conference on Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology IV held at San Diego.
	www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk /ccabnews.html (1811 words)

	BBC - collective - A Discovery of Cosmic Life?
		Chandra tells us that in 1961, when he started researching the dust, it was “almost an article of faith among astronomers that interstellar dust grains were composed of dirty ice material”.
		Chandra quotes the editor of “Nature” in a 1986 article: “What these authors seem incapable of understanding is that their panspermia convictions sully even their sober contributions to the literature”.
		Chandra points out at the end of the book that it’s five centuries since Copernicus displaced our Earth centred universe, but it’s only now that we are coming to realise that the Earth may not be the centre for life either.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A10401391 (1320 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Star Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For Chandra Wickramasinghe was so inspired by the 'magnificent' canopy that stretched across his homeland, he developed a yearning to investigate.
		Now, as Wickramasinghe prepares to retire next month from his role as Cardiff University's professor of applied mathematics and astronomy, he will be celebrated in a BBC Horizon programme and a special conference, entitled 'Progress towards unravelling our cosmic ancestry'.
		Wickramasinghe's theories were propelled further forward this year when a front-page report by the New Scientist looked at claims by Indian scientists that 50 tons of microbes fell to earth in 2001 in the form of a red rain.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/622379/star_man/index.html?source=r_science (1447 words)

	life, in space
		According to a hotly-disputed theory by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, first put forward in 1974, life may have originated not on the surface of planets, such as Earth, but in the large interstellar clouds of gas and dust from which stars and their planetary systems form.
		Hoyle and Wickramasinghe believe that molecular clouds, such as those present in the Orion Nebula, are the most natural cradles of life.
		Hoyle and Wickramasinghe point out that such clumps would have dimensions of a few microns – similar to the sizes of cells in simple microorganisms.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/lifespace.html (445 words)

	Earth : Are We Alone?
		The living bacteria, plucked from an altitude of 10 miles (16 km) or higher by a scientific balloon, could have been deposited in terrestrial airspace by a passing comet, according to the researchers.
		Wickramasinghe and colleague Sir Fred Hoyle published a report on the Web Friday about evidence that they say strengthens the hypothesis that unusual microbes float through the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
		Wickramasinghe holds that primitive life could still be arriving from space.
	www.mufor.org /news/earth241100.html (519 words)

	SETI@Netherlands --- Do you think space is empty ---
		Cardiff University researcher Chandra Wickramasinghe told the British tabloid newspaper The Sun that the deadly disease SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, might have come from outer space.
		Wickramasinghe and his long-time collaborator, the late Sir Fred Hoyle, have for decades said the flu and other bugs rain down from above and could be responsible for outbreaks.
		In the new SARS claim, Wickramasinghe is joined by Milton Wainwright of Sheffield University, who said the novel nature of the virus and the fact it was first detected in China point to the possibility of ET origins.
	www.seti.nl /article.php?id=450 (1008 words)

	SETICon02 Banquet Speaker
		The SETI League, Inc. is pleased to announce the selection of distinguished astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe as Banquet Speaker for the 2nd Annual SETI League Awards Banquet, to be held in conjunction with its upcoming SETICon02 Technical Symposium.
		Wickramasinghe will speak on "Why Alien Intelligence May Not Be So Alien" after the dinner, which begins at 6 PM on Saturday, 27 April, 2002 at the Student Center of The College of New Jersey, Trenton NJ.
		Wickramasinghe was awarded the International Dag Hammarskjold Gold Medal for Science, and in 1992 he was decorated by the President of Sri Lanka with the titular honour of Vidya Jyothi.
	www.setileague.org /seticon/banqsp02.htm (351 words)

	Medbroadcast Health News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wickramasinghe is one of the pioneers of the theory of "panspermia," the idea that life on earth originated from - and continues to be seeded by - bacteria and viruses brought into Earth's atmosphere by comets.
		When Wickramasinghe and his collaborator, the late Sir Fred Hoyle, first advanced the theory in the 1980s, it was roundly ridiculed.
		Wickramasinghe argued the collection was done under strict controls and that at 41 kilometres, the presence of large quantities of microorganisms is "very difficult to explain in terms of any lift off from the ground."
	www.medbroadcast.com /health_news_details_pf.asp?news_id=1379&news_channel_id=1000 (1079 words)

	Micheal Cranford Corey Carroll states: Recently I went to the Dallas public library and go (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Creationists actually flew Chandra Wickramasinghe to the 1982 "Balanced Treatment of Creation-Science [sic] and Evolution-Science Act" trial held in Little Rock Arkansas (as their star witness!).
		Wickramasinghe's firm understanding of biology was brought forth by asking him to read a passage from _Evolution From Space_ which claimed that insects are in fact smarter than humans but are being very careful to not let on.
		Judge Overton expressed confusion as to why the defense recruited Wickramasinghe; he ended up assuming that it must have been because Wickramasinghe was critical of both evolution and the scientific community.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/repealen.htm (502 words)

	Analysis of Interstellar Dust and Selected Resources. by Brig Klyce
		Professor N. Chandra Wickramasinghe was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on January 20, 1939.
		Then in 1974 Wickramasinghe demonstrated that there are complex organic polymers, specifically molecules of "polyformaldehyde" in space (6).
		By 1975, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe were convinced that organic polymers were a substantial fraction of the dust.
	www.panspermia.org /astronmy.htm (1736 words)

	Space aliens return to Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since the 1970s, the astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe have pushed a controversial theory that Earth was seeded with life by bacteria from outer space.
		Wickramasinghe had found, he said, “unambiguous evidence” of bacteria 40 km above the Earth's surface, providing strong support for a theory of extraterrestrial life.
		For Chandra Wickramasinghe the bacteria are long-awaited evidence for the ‘Panspermia' theory he developed with Sir Fred Hoyle.
	www.hero.ac.uk /uk/research/archives/2001/space_aliens_return_to_ea1190.cfm (496 words)

	Guimar 2001 (English Version)
		Chandra Wickramasinghe, that got together in Tenerife to propose their interesting and daring points of view about Ancient Egypt in the meeting "Solsticio 2001", organized by the radio program "Esencia de Medianoche" and magazine "Más Allá"
		The main points of the meeting were the persistence nowadays of an astronomical tradition born during the Pharaohs era, or the determinant influence that meteorites could affect to the course of the history and the civilizations.
		The meetings about the solstice were surrounded by a wide photographic exhibition about pyramids of the world, as well as a communication about the main archaeological and historical questions of Canaries, in both cases presented by the team of investigation of Essence of Midnight (Esencia de Medianoche).
	www.juansol.com /guimar2001_eng.htm (396 words)

	A panspermic view of life
		Though the evidence or even a convincing theoretical argument for the spontaneous generation of life forms from amino acids is still lacking, the Oparin-Haldane paradigm, together with the Darwinian principles of random mutations in the genes and environmental selection of the genomes for survival, still prevails despite arguments of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe to the contrary.
		They argue that the time scales in the universe as a whole, particularly unbounded time in the context of steady state cosmology as a gainst the big-bang cosmology, and the combined resources of all the comets around all the stars in all the galaxies would be more conducive for life to begin.
		Wickramasinghe, who is also director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology in the United Kingdom, is currently involved in experiments to detect life processes in space.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1725/17250800.htm (2295 words)

	naturalSCIENCE, Volume 1, Article 5, 1997
		The actual spectrum of the bioculture that we used was taken from a paper by Wickramasinghe, Hoyle and Majeed (1989).
		The proportions of the two components, olivine and bioculture, for which the dashed curve of Figure 1 was calculated, were defined by the requirement that the olivine component should produce 25% of the total intensity count at 24 micrometers.
		Chandra Wickramasinghe is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University.
	naturalscience.com /ns/articles/01-05/ns_wh.html (1151 words)

	DARWINISM-WATCH.com - Responding Evolutionist Propaganda in the Media
		Chandra Wickramasinghe, a professor of applied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Cardiff commented on Shapiro's result:
		Indeed, such a theory (that life was assembled by an intelligence) is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self- evident.
		Both Wickramasinghe and Hoyle are men who, during much of their careers, approached science with a materialist bent; but the truth that confronted them was that life was created and both had the courage to admit this.
	www.darwinism-watch.com /appeal_to_reason.php (1132 words)

	Linda Moulton Howe: Extraterrstrial Bacteria
		Chandra Wickramasinghe in Britain have hypothesized that cyclic pandemics of disease, including flus, which have periodically swept the earth might be directly linked to organisms from the cosmos.
		In the past two weeks, Dr. Wickramasinghe established a new Center for Astrobiology at Cardiff University in Wales and was quoted by a reporter at The Daily Mail as saying "a tiny form of primitive alien life," has been discovered in the earth's upper atmosphere.
		Wickramasinghe allegedly told The Daily Mail: "This is the first time we have direct evidence for the hypothesis that comets seed life on other planets" and that there is a "hitherto unknown strain of bacteria" now being studied, a bacteria "different from anything we have seen before."
	dwij.org /pathfinders/linda_moulton_howe/linda_mh5.htm (1447 words)

	Earthfiles.com
		Wickramasinghe had some vials of the red rainwater to study and sent some to biologists at Sheffield University in England.
		Wickramasinghe for Earthfiles and Dreamland, he was reluctant to give up on the red rain cells having recognizable Earth DNA.
		Wickramasinghe will host 30 astrobiologists from around the world at Cardiff University, including Dr. Godfrey Louis, who is flying in from Kerala, India, to present his research on the red rain cells since 2001.
	www.earthfiles.com /news/news.cfm?ID=1129&category=Science (3702 words)

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	SPACE.com -- Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia
		In interviews with more than a half dozen respected scientists in diverse fields, it's clear that panspermia, or at least some aspects of the theory, is poised to jump to the forefront of study among scientists who seek to understand where and how life began.
		The renowned Sir Fred Hoyle, known for his studies of star structure and the origin of the chemical elements in stars, has worked with Chandra Wickramasinghe over the past three decades to pioneer the modern theory of panspermia.
		In the 1970s, Wickramasinghe and Hoyle found what they say are traces of life in the dust around distant stars.
	www.space.com /searchforlife/aliens_all_001027-1.html (865 words)

	FuturePundit: Carbon Coating Hiding Many Dangerous Comets?
		Bill Napier, Chandra Wickramasinghe, and his daughter, Cardiff University student Janaki Wickramasinghe have proposed that there may be hundreds of comets in Sun's orbit that are so dark that optical methods will fail to detect them before they collide with Earth.
		Wickramasinghe has suggested that Sedna, the most distant body identified in our Solar System, could have an orbiting twin that is dark, fluffy and made of tarry carbon compounds (see "Sedna 'has invisible moon'").
		But Prof Wickramasinghe believes that if there is one, there may well be hundreds, lurking beyond the outer planets of Neptune and Pluto.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002410.html (1431 words)

	LankaWeb News
		An Indian and British team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe has declared that they have found what they called life coming from deep space in the edge of earth's own atmosphere in the form of clumps of bacteria.
		Chandra Wickramasinghe is the world's leading exponent of a theory called Panspermia, that teaches earth and other planets in the universe may have been seeded for life by microorganism carrying comets.
		This interview with Professor Wickramasinghe was conducted following his visit to California to present his findings to a meeting of scientists of the International Society for Optical Engineering in San Diego:
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items01/180801-3.html (1348 words)

	Unravelling our cosmic ancestry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An international astronomy conference will mark the retirement of a Cardiff University scientist who helped to challenge the theory that life originated on Earth and who will be the focus of a BBC Horizon programme.
		Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe's achievements include pioneering research on interstellar dust, which has influenced the development of astrobiology internationally; his theory of cosmic life, developed in collaboration with the late Sir Fred Hoyle; and popularising astronomy through the publication of more than 25 books.
		Professor Wickramasinghe said: "For the past 30 years I have worked on the theory that life didn't start on Earth but on comets some 4,000 million years ago and this theory is fast moving into mainstream science.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-08/cu-uoc081406.php (239 words)

	Untitled Document
		The original case for influenza coming from space as presented by Prof Sir Fred Hoyle and Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe in 1978-9 was not well made.
		However, Professors Hoyle and Wickramasinghe continue to promote the misguided idea of "Space Flu", with a new article in the London Guardian newspaper, published in January 2000.
		The Dilemma of Influenza previous article by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe.
	www.theguardians.com /Microbiology/gm_mbo01.htm (173 words)

	ICAMSR - Book Reviews
		Two of the pioneers of the modern version of panspermia –; the theory that comets disperse microbial life throughout the cosmos – trace the development of their ideas through a sequence of key papers.
		The publication of this book is all the more timely now that we are on the threshold of verifying many of these ideas by direct space exploration of planets and comets.
		Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, panspermia's most outspoken scientist advocate, describes in his new book that extinction level events are not always the result of impacting celestrial bodies.
	www.icamsr.org /book_reviews.html (532 words)

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