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Alexander Oparin
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Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin (1894–1980) was a Soviet biochemist and chemist. Born in Uglich, he was educated at Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he also served as an employer. His fields of work included biochemistry, biology, and chemistry. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.
Oparin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and received several honors, including the Hero of Socialist Labour title, the Kalinga Prize, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, and the Order of Lenin. He authored numerous works, with notable titles including *Origin of Life on the Earth* and *Problemy vozniknoveniia i sushchnosti zhizni*. He died in Moscow and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- 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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,019x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,516x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,574x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,941x
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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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