Milton Wainwright

Milton Wainwright
Born (1950-02-23)February 23, 1950
Residence Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Citizenship British
Nationality English
Fields Microbiology, Astrobiology
Institutions
Alma mater University of Nottingham
Known for "Alien Bugs", Neopanspermia

Milton Wainwright (born 1950) is a British microbiologist who is known for his research into what he claims could be extraterrestrial life found in the stratosphere.[1][2][3]

Education

Wainwright graduated from the University of Nottingham in the field of botany. He obtained a PhD from the same university in the field of mycology. After he went to the National Research Council of Canada as postdoctoral fellow, where he obtained a qualification in environmental microbiology. After his postdoctoral fellowship, he went to work at the University of Sheffield.[4]

Research

Wainwright's interests are in astrobiology and the history of science.[4] He claimed that the idea of natural selection is not original to Darwin's or Wallace's theory.[5] Also, he has claimed that the red rain in Kerala is a biological entity.[6] Wainwright has also written widely about the history of the discovery penicillin (including that Hitler’s life was saved by the drug) and streptomycin[7] and on the hypothesis that bacteria and other non-virus microbes cause cancer.[8]

Wainwright identifies as an agnostic.[9]

Books

Milton Wainwright is author of the books Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics (1990) and An introduction to environmental biotechnology (2011).[10][11]

Honours and awards

Articles


https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=3n-G_T0AAAAJ&hl=en

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