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Stanley L. Miller, 44. Shooting electric sparks through a mixture of hydrogen, methane and ammonia in a glass container of water, Miller created an organic soup containing amino acid, duplicating in the laboratory the early steps in the creation of life. He performed this classic experiment in 1953 while studying for his Ph.D. under Nobel Laureate Harold Urey at the University of Chicago. A native of Oakland, Calif., he taught biochemistry at Columbia, is now at the University of California, La Jolla. Miller took part in a NASA study of the feeding of astronauts on journeys of 500 to 1,000 days, recently directed a group of students in a project to design a steam engine for automobiles.
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Jonathan Moore, 41. As director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Republican Moore is responsible for building bridges between politicians and Cambridge's scholarly community. He earned a Harvard M.A. in public administration before embarking on a Government career that spanned the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Administrations. Recently an aide to Elliot Richardson, Moore resigned shortly after the Saturday Night Massacre. Moore, who took over the institute last week, will be in charge of offering prestigious fellowships to politicians and public officials, under which they lead discussion groups on the practical aspects of public issues.
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James P. Morton, 44. since Morton was named its dean two years ago, New York City's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine has become a home for music and dance workshops and other non-church activities, played host to non-Christian spiritual disciplines such as Sufism, and started a program in which poor families rehabilitate and eventually own their apartments. St. John's is "a holy place for the whole city," explains the Houston-born, Harvard-educated ecumenist. The holder of a degree in architecture, Morton is considered an urban affairs expert. As onetime director of Chicago's Urban Training Center for Christian Mission, he sent would-be city pastors out to live on the streets on $2 a day.
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Bill Moyers, 40. One of the most thoughtful and effective voices in the nation, Moyers has been a wonder, boy and man. The top journalism student in his class at the University of Texas, he joined Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's staff in 1959, six years later became President Johnson's press secretary. Moyers was named publisher of the Long Island daily Newsday in 1967, resigned in 1970 to write Listening to America, and appeared for three years on his weekly Public Broadcasting Service Journal—a literate and imaginative television series. Moyers insists that he is fresh out of things to say, but it is a safe bet that he will be back saying something worthwhile before long.
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Michael Murphy, 43, helped give the word encounter a new definition and made rubbing shoulders with strangers an eloquent gesture. A Stanford psychology major, Murphy emerged from two years of meditation and study in a Hindu ashram in India convinced that a new world view was on the horizon and co-founded the Esalen Institute on California's Big Sur, spawning an international "human potential" movement. Utilizing group-therapy techniques, humanistic