What is Leslie Orgel?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Leslie Eleazer Orgel | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|1|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|10|27|1927|1|12|df=y}} | death_place = [[San Diego]], [[California]] | nationality = [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px|]] [[United Kingdom|British]] | field = [[Chemistry]] | work_institution = [[University of Oxford]]<br />[[University of Cambridge]] | alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]]<br />[[California Institute of Technology]]<br />[[University of Chicago]] | known_for = [[Orgel diagram]] }} '''Leslie Eleazer Orgel''' FRS (12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[chemist]]. Born in [[London]], Orgel received his B.A. and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in chemistry at [[Magdalen College]], [[Oxford University]]. He was one of the first people to see, in April 1953, [[Francis Crick|Crick]] and [[James D. Watson|Watson]]'s model of [[DNA]]: at the time he worked at Oxford University's Chemistry Department.<ref>Olby, Robert, ''Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets,'' Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2009, Chapter 10, p. 181 {{ISBN|978-0-87969-798-3}}</ref> In 1964 Orgel was appointed Senior Fellow and Research Professor at the [[Salk Institute]] for Biological Studies, where he directed the Chemical Evolution Laboratory. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the [[University of California, San Diego]], and he was one of five principal investigators in the [[NASA]]-sponsored NSCORT program in [[Astrobiology|exobiology]]. Orgel also participated in NASA's [[Viking program|Viking]] Mars Lander Program as a member of the Molecular Analysis Team that designed the [[gas chromatography]] [[Mass spectrometry|mass spectrometer]] instrument that robots