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Alexander Oparin
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Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
Alexander Oparin was a Soviet biochemist who lived from 1894 to 1980 and made important contributions to understanding how life might have begun on Earth. His work on the chemical origins of life helped shape modern scientific thinking about the conditions necessary for living organisms to emerge from non-living matter.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksandr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Uglich
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- chemist
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Oparin.jpg
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1894-02-18
- date of death
- 1980-04-21
- described by source
- Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
- Commons category
- Aleksandr Oparin
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (Russian: Александр Иванович Опарин; 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1894 – 21 April 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life and for his book The Origin of Life.
He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells. He showed that many food production processes were based on biocatalysis and developed the foundations for industrial biochemistry in the USSR.
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