Alexander Oparin
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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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- Born
- 2 March 1894
- Died
- 21 April 1980
- Works
- 72
Top works
- Origin of Life on the Earth
- Proiskhozhdenie zhizni i ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ biokhimii︠a︡
- Zhiznʹ ee priroda
- Problemy vozniknoveniia i sushchnosti zhizni
- Narody mira v bor'be za mir
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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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1894 births1980 deaths20th-century biochemists20th-century Russian biologistsAcademic staff of the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of RussiaBurials at Novodevichy CemeteryEvolutionary biologistsForeign members of the Bulgarian Academy of SciencesFull Members of the USSR Academy of SciencesHeroes of Socialist LabourKalinga Prize recipients