Emmett W. Chappelle

CTL-E-1040 · Institution · other · unspecified

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Emmett Chappelle, a NASA Goddard exobiologist/astrochemist (1966–2001), developed the firefly-bioluminescence assay for detecting ATP, enabling detection of microbial life in fluids, food, and wate...

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-027; source research type(s): None. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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